Word: area
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chase is concerned that a backlash to the natural-burn policy may produce the other extreme: the rapid extinguishing of all forest fires. Residents, tourists and area politicians have already sharply criticized the Park Service for waiting too long before moving to contain the latest blazes. "I question the wisdom of sticking to the policy in a year like this, with these severe drought and weather conditions," said Montana Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat. Wyoming Senator Malcolm Wallop, a Republican, agreed, adding his worry about the impact of the fires on the local economy. "We've had a catastrophe...
...many scholars and business leaders, from the Bay Area to Boston, are beginning to voice concern about what Harvard Economist Robert Reich has dubbed "chronic entrepreneurialism." These contrarians contend that America's obsession with start-up companies is undermining U.S. competitive strength. They blame the proliferation of small companies for an alarming loss of U.S. market share in strategic high-tech businesses, ranging from semiconductors to fiber optics. The constant sprouting of new ventures, they explain, may be weakening the U.S. industrial structure by splintering American manufacturing power into too many small pieces...
...week reached the Lenin shipyard, Solidarity's birthplace in the Baltic port of Gdansk. For the second time in less than five months, militant young workers hoisted scarlet-and-white SOLIDARNOSC banners across the main entrance to the shipyard, while outside a cordon of militia swiftly sealed off the area. From inside the gates, a familiar face with walrus mustache addressed a crowd of cheering workers. "The most important demand is the revival of Solidarity," said Nobel Peace Prizewinner Lech Walesa. "It is needed in these difficult times to fight for reforms, design them and introduce them...
...site of the excavations was first surveyed in 1923, but it was not until three decades later that it was identified as Ekron (peak population: 6,000). The American-Israeli excavation, now in its seventh season, is uncovering a wealth of material in a 50-acre area that is helping archaeologists piece together a far more accurate -- and flattering -- portrait of the ancient Philistines. Says Gitin: "When we started digging at Ekron, it was as though we were opening a time capsule...
...Hood Canal, an arm of Puget Sound, and the Navy shipyard at Bremerton. Ahead, partly obscured by clouds, are the Olympic Peninsula and the huge trees and muscular ridges and peaks of Olympic National Park. What we want to see from the air is the Shelton sustained-yield area, a heavily logged region just short of the park, most of it in the Olympic National Forest...