Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through the 11,000-ft.-high Salang Pass. A mile-long tunnel there could be dynamited by rebels, and it has been under military guard since April. At the border the Amu Darya River must be crossed by a ferry, though negotiations are under way for the Soviets to build a bridge...
There are at least 200 such professional convention consultants in private practice, about an equal number on the staffs of major associations. They will write speeches, build exhibits, put on skits with bona fide Equity actors, order food and drink, bribe hotel employees to be especially solicitous, arrange side-trips for spouses?or all of the above, typically for 10% of the meeting's cost. There are also convention specialists on the staffs of major.hotels who, like their counterparts in municipal convention bureaus, try to sell gregarious groups into meeting chez...
...environmental regulations are discouraging the oil industry from producing. If the nation wants to continue its growing use of unleaded gas, Washington must permit the companies a reasonable profit from making and selling it. Air pollution regulations for industry must also be relaxed enough to allow oil companies to build the additional refineries that are needed to do the job. If Congress and the Administration feel that doing that is asking too much, auto emission standards themselves will have to be eased substantially. Indeed, the only other choice would seem to be chronic and enervating gasoline shortages for years...
...There is the possibility that the fire was deliberately set," Ambrogne said, adding that fire investigators are still trying to determine whether soot build-up in the chimney could have caused the blaze...
...Department of Buildings and Grounds (B&G) had no record of when it last cleaned the Adams House chimneys. However, Frank A. Marciano, superintendent of area maintenance, said yesterday, "There is no evidence that soot build-up caused the fire...