Word: basin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson has had its lineups set for only three days, and only three members of last year's varsity are back. Junior James Sheldon, up from last year's 2-2 j.v., will be at eight for the varsity. The race begins in the Charles River Basin...
Charles River Basin. varisty, 10:30 a.m. j.v. 11 a.m. first freshmen. 11:30 a.m. third varsity, 12 noon...
According to the Defense Department, the purpose of Ocean Venture is to "enhance the perception of the capability of the U.S. to project military power," especially by "supporting our friendly neighbors in the Caribbean basin." That seemed to be the Reagan Administration's way of restating a familiar theme: if the alternative to democratic procedures is to be the use of force, the U.S. has plenty
...edge. The Federal Government has traditionally controlled all drilling on the shelf beyond three miles, except off Texas and Florida, which maintain a ten-mile jurisdiction.-The decision, written by Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, involves 29 tracts, totaling 165,000 acres, in the Santa Maria basin off the California coast between Morro Bay and Point Conception, northwest of Santa Barbara. Geologists have estimated there may be as much as 1 billion bbl. of oil in the entire basin. The sections had initially been freed up for lease by the Interior Department in 1981. But California managed...
Violence in the Caribbean Basin and the Middle East brought the superpower confrontation into still sharper focus. The invasion of Grenada, Reagan claimed, prevented Marxists from turning that island into a Soviet-Cuban colony. Elsewhere in the region, however, no such quick or decisive victory for Administration policy seemed in sight. U.S. aid to the conservative government of El Salvador in its fight against a leftist insurrection, and to the contra rebels battling the Marxist-led government of Nicaragua, did little more than sustain grim guerrilla wars. Just as the U.S. did after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...