Word: damming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arteries" as David Lilienthal put it. Especially under Nixon appointee William L. Jenkins, who resigned last May, the agency had become just another power company singlemindedly pursuing energy without regard for human costs. Through its dependence on coal it became a scavenger on the land; through its mania for dam and park building, the T.V.A. dispossessed thousands of people who had lived in the valley for generations. Communities with names like Energy, Wildcat and Turkey have been wiped out. Through its cultivation of nuclear power (it will have seven operating plants by the late 1980s) the T.V.A. encouraged the development...
...dealt a mortal blow to the anti-inflation wage policies of Prime Minister James Callaghan. Although his Labor government has close links with the trade unions, Callaghan has had no success in restraining workers' demands for contract settlements that would greatly exceed his 5% wage-ceiling guidelines. The dam began to burst last fall, when Ford Motor Co. workers wrested a 17% raise after a bruising two-month strike. Since then, few unions have been willing to settle for less. The truckers, for example, have spurned a 15% hike proposed by the country's haulage firms...
Richard Strauss: Salome (Soprano Hildegard Behrens, Mezzo Agnes Baltsa, Tenor Karl-Walter Bohm, Baritone Jose Van Dam, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan conductor, Angel; 2 LPs). With Karajan, the orchestral music comes first, even in opera. Here he conducts a vibrant, sensuous performance of Strauss's lurid opera. Behrens as Salome may lack the cruel edge of Birgit Nilsson's performance on London. But Behrens' pure voice contrasts chillingly with Salome's lust, while Van Dam's ringing Jochanaan is a saintly counterpoint in a savage world...
...Citizens living along the Merrimack River in Massachusetts, where Henry David Thoreau once paddled his skiff, were thankful that a workman at the Lawrence Dam spotted a 9½-lb. salmon last week...
Regarding your reference to the Furbish lousewort as a weed. Biologically, the Furbish lousewort is a native American. It is the Dickey Lincoln Dam that will be the weed, not the lousewort...