Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still need oil and, more generally, abundant energy. The Mideast is risky, as are Mexico, Venezuela, and Nigeria in the long-term. And domestic off-shore drilling threatens not to live up to its promise. So, do we need a crash program to develop synthetic fuels? Coal is plentiful, but is it clean enough to be the electricity of the future? Are nuclear power, fusion and fission going to have a role in the next 20 years? And what should the government be spending to foster such research? These questions of supply, though hard to answer now, could have been...
...train rushes through steepled villages and storied forests, past vineyards, lakes and battlefields, young multilingual porters, mostly hotel trained, stow the guests' bags, bring drinks and tend the little coal stoves that provide hot water. Attendants also take care of all passport formalities. The bubbly flows. People meet and chat easily. The meals, whipped up in a space hardly bigger than most apartment kitchens, include dinner and a next-day brunch. They would probably earn the rolling restaurant one toque in the Gault-Millau Guide. After dinner, Chef Ranvier gives one impressed guest his recipe for le foie gras...
Land Leasing. Under Watt the federal acreage leased for oil exploration has more than doubled; land leased to coal companies has quintupled. Conservationists worry, for example, about the lease hastily granted last fall for drilling beneath New Mexico's Capitan Wilderness. Critics also say it is unwise to auction coal properties during a market glut...
...bountiful, but not bottomless well soon may be tapped. Texans are talking of pumping water from the Mississippi River, which draws much of its volume out of the states in the Great Lakes watershed. Coal mining interests in Montana have approached Wisconsin for access to Lake Superior. They want to pipe water to the Montana coalfields, where it would be mixed with crushed coal to form a mudlike slurry that would in turn be fed to other parts of the country. uch schemes are not pipe dreams: South Dakota earlier this year agreed to sell 50,000 acre...
BORN. To Sissy Spacek, 32, Oscar-winning actress (Coal Miner's Daughter), and Jack Fisk, 36, Spacek's husband, who directed her in Raggedy Man; their first child, a girl; in Los Angeles. Name: Schuyler Elizabeth...