Word: coal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter cannot proclaim, as Stephen Foster once did, that Bardstown is My Old Kentucky Home. But after his warm and noisy welcome there last week, the President might well consider the small (pop. 7,000) town in Kentucky's bourbon and coal country a refreshing spiritual haven where Washington's incessant pressures can be, if only fleetingly, forgotten...
...seen in the decision to pump billions of dollars into the development of synthetic fuels. As Colorado's Democratic Governor Dick Lamm put it: "For us in the West the implications are almost unfathomable. Colorado has 80% of the nation's developable shale, vast amounts of coal and a great deal of uranium. Now we are being subjected to a crash program...
...Coconut Grove for his estranged American-born wife Hope, and a luxurious apartment for his girlfriend Dinorah Sampson. Besides this choice real estate, Somoza's enterprises include six companies in Miami that imported a reported $30 million worth of beef last year, a 49% share of two Colombian coal-mining companies, and a controlling interest in Visión, a conservative newsmagazine that is widely circulated in South America...
Eric Chaisson, assistant professor of Astronomy, said yesterday the increased use of coal will enhance the "greenhouse effect," which describes the trapping of heat into the earth's atmosphere...
...release of carbon dioxide from the burning of coal would probably cause the temperature of the atmosphere to rise, he said. However, he added that, "There are so many factors involved and no one knows how the long range cycle of warming and cooling will work...