Word: bays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea. "I would be afraid that in order to make its mission more totally rewarding, an independent operations side would create undertakings quite beyond necessity. It wouldn't have a hell of a lot to do, so it would think up a whole lot of dirty tricks. The Bay of Pigs was very highly compartmentalized, so much so that CIA analysts had no access to it before it was undertaken. If the analysts had been brought in, they would have immediately seen the flaws in the undertaking and advised against...
...resume at least partial operation. Perhaps a third of the 1.8 million employees who had been idled by cold-related shutdowns went back to their jobs. But some workers, such as the more than 3,000 watermen who harvest oysters in Maryland's still iced-over Chesapeake Bay, may have to wait longer to resume earning money, and industries in the Pacific Northwest, confronting a drought that is undermining hydroelectric generating capacity, face power cuts...
...Paso proposal, an all-American project, calls for piping gas on a route parallel to the oil pipeline, from Prudhoe Bay almost due south across Alaska to Gravina Point. There it would be liquefied, loaded on tankers, shipped to California, deliquefied and pumped into existing pipelines. Alaska state officials vigorously support the El Paso system, which would bring jobs and investment for liquefaction plants to the area. One key drawback to the plan is that the West Coast already has an ample supply of gas. Another is the possibility of tanker mishaps. The Alcan application, which proposes laying a pipeline...
...Life. Marin has plenty of water -all the wrong kind. Its peninsula affords magnificent views of the Pacific, San Pablo Bay and Drakes Bay. But the county's fresh-water reservoirs are inadequate. For years the residents have been voting down bond issues that would have supplemented the reservoirs -partly on the theory that limiting water would be one way to restrict unwanted growth. But last week the water supply was so low that county officials ordered a tough system of enforced rationing. Depending upon the number of residents in a home, each individual will be limited to between...
...owns a summer home, pasture and woodlands at Penobscot Bay, on the fringe of the Indian claims he is pressing...