Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will even hear an appeal of the federal court ruling banning Baltimore Canyon drilling. Resolution of the Georges Bank dispute will take longer. Environmentalists and public officials in Massachusetts and on Long Island insist that they are not trying to prevent offshore oil production permanently. But they make it clear that they intend to delay drilling until they are satisfied their coastlines and fisheries are being properly protected...
...most influential personalities in U.S. religion? The Protestant weekly Christian Century asked 35 experts in the religious and secular press and found the "clear winner" to be Evangelist Billy Graham. Other members of the top ten in order of votes received: Church Historian-Journalist Martin E. Marty, President Jimmy Carter, Ecumenical Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, Notre Dame's President Theodore Hesburgh, Oral Roberts, Campus Crusade's Bill Bright, Jesse Jackson, Anita Bryant and William P. Thompson, the chief executive of the United Presbyterian Church. Lest the survey be taken too seriously, George Burns, star of Oh, God!, got two votes...
While the rest of the University has been throwing, eating and sculpting the newly-fallen snow, a small army of Buildings and Grounds (B&G) personnel has been struggling to clear it away...
Wright said approximately 50 students were taken on at $3.90 an hour to assist in snow removal operations. "No machine can clear all the steps around Harvard. The students did a fantastic job," he said, adding that yesterday's resumption of classes has slowed removal operations considerably...
Other Cambridge organizations have also asked people to help in the emergency. The Cambridge Fire Department has asked everyone to shovel out fire hydrants, the Red Cross is conducting an emergency blood drive, and the Cambridge Public Works Department asked people to clear snow from street drains to prevent flooding...