Word: alaska
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...tenaciously as the lichens that grow on the mountain's rocks. A few people fled the area after last year's eruption, too nervous to stay or too stunned and depressed to rebuild their disrupted lives. A handful of local loggers and their families emigrated to Alaska to avoid having to live near the volcano. But most are making money cleaning up. Tom Henderson, a foreman of a team of loggers working to salvage what might be as much as $50 million worth of downed timber for Weyerhaeuser Co., gets $11.80 an hour, plus...
...that results from some 6 million tons of sulfur dioxide drifting north from U.S. industries-a problem that could be exacerbated if U.S. pollution laws are relaxed. The Ottawa government has also been pushing for faster U.S. action on plans for the joint construction of a gas pipeline from Alaska across the Canadian West into the U.S. And the U.S. is worried about Canadian proposals to make American firms reduce their ownership in Canada's energy-related industries...
...third Soviet purpose in the present buildup in the Far East entails a more direct and immediate threat to the U.S.: Soviet submarines armed with missiles targeted on the U.S. have tended to take up their stations in the open waters of the North Pacific, between Hawaii and Alaska. Their movements can be monitored relatively easily by U.S. antisubmarine warfare (ASW) forces. But the latest Soviet submarines, fitted with new longer-range missiles, could hit targets in the continental U.S. from farther awayfrom the Sea of Okhotsk north of Hokkaido, which is sheltered by the Soviet mainland, a peninsula...
...shareholders of Kennecott. Before the agreement was announced, the company's stock was trading for about $27 a share; Sohio is willing to pay about $62. The acquisition also looks promising for Sohio, the U.S.'s 14th largest refiner. The company owns 33% of the trans-Alaska pipeline and has been turning North Slope crude into cash. Last year it had profits of $1.8 billion on revenues of $ 11 billion. Sohio, which already owns some coal and uranium mining operations, has been looking around recently for profitable places to spend its spare cash...
...cheechakos" of 1898 invaded Alaska for the gold and other wealth that were abundant; any later cheechakos were looked upon as claim jumpers and treated as such. The Zobels and other newcomers who arrived after the passage of the great Alaskan oil-revenues rebate are not asking for the world. They just want their 10%, like all the other cheechakos who came before them...