Word: basins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more and more of the earth's bounty, troubling questions arise. Is it worth cutting the hardwood reserves of the Amazon River basin if the price is the destruction of the thin jungle soil? Should the oil under the North Sea be drilled at the risk of gravely endangering the beaches and wildlife of six nations? Can civilization's need for fuel and other materials be satisfied without despoiling the few wild areas left on earth...
...those accounts of unlimited woe that try the playgoer's patience. Boesman (James Earl Jones) and Lena (Ruby Dee) are pitiable South African Coloreds whom God and man have forsaken, and whose only shelter is some abandoned junk on the banks of a muddy river basin. Nature wheels around them like an impatient vulture, and death is the only consolation prize that their life has to offer...
Florida's conservationists disagree. In carving out the canal's first 27 miles, the builders created two dams and a reservoir that have already flooded 13,000 acres of forests in the Oklawaha River basin. Unfortunately, the basin forms a unique "hydric hammock" that abounds with rare alligators, panthers and wild turkeys. The hammock harbors this life because the river bed is periodically exposed to air, thus providing alternating wet and dry seasons that are essential to the survival of the wild, beautiful river-swamp system. With permanent flooding, ecologists warn, the system's rare creatures will...
...warrant sitting through the whole movie. Both are fantasy projections of the heroes. While Daria and Mark make love in a Mojave riverbed (and it is fairly anti-social to do it in that much dirt), more and more lovers seem to materialize all over the desert basin until it is covered with playfully wrestling, fornicating bodies that tumble down the dunes in twos and threes and fours. It was as happy a post-revolutionary vision as anyone has ever imagined...
...Nixon's message, under preparation for six months, was clearly knowledgeable. Instead of attacking water pollution in individual localities, for example, the President considered whole river-basin systems. He pledged $4 billion in federal funds over the next five years to help municipalities build 1,500 new sewage-treatment plants and improve 2,500 existing facilities. The towns and cities will have to raise another $6 billion in matching funds, but they can expect assistance from a new Environmental Financing Authority. If Congress approves, this agency will issue its own federal bonds to buy the local bonds that cities...