Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whom Carter has already designated as his Administration's energy czar, former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. At DOE, Schlesinger, now chief White House energy adviser, will have an annual budget of around $7 billion and a truly czar-sized staff of about 20,000 employees. Among them, beneath Schlesinger as Energy Secretary, will be a Deputy Secretary, two Under Secretaries and eight Assistant Secretaries...
...industry was jolted last week by bad legal news that involved drilling below two widely separated stretches of water. The Government voiced deep suspicion that major companies are not producing as much natural gas as they could from beneath the Gulf of Mexico, and a federal judge issued an order that will in effect forestall drilling for oil off the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey...
Serban's best images effectively magnify the play's conflict between the old order and the bright new world that is its doom: a frieze of peasants laboring beneath modern telegraph wires, a group of aristocrats watching the setting sun silhouette a factory on the horizon. But this kind of staginess can also be distracting: an imposingly literal set of cherry trees all but overruns a house in Act I; a little girl bearing cherry blossoms self-consciously tiptoes into the old servant Firs' death scene. The high, deep stage-space forces the cast to play...
...National Weather Service reports that the "flood potential" is high in an area covering western New York and Pennsylvania and extending into most of West Virginia, parts of Ohio and the northeastern tip of Kentucky. Much of that region lies beneath a blanket of snow that is six inches or more thick. Says Herb Lieb, a spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: "It's like a great, frigid lake, ready to run during a sudden thaw. We could have the makings of some real flood disasters...
Mocking the human dream of taking wing, elves aspire to a place in society so high that flying will be beneath them...