Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer be recognized. But while Taiwan has indicated that it would remain in the U.N. if China were admitted to the General Assembly, the nub of the question is whether Taipei will be able to retain its permanent seat on the Security Council. Only the Taiwan government's delay in advising the U.S. precisely what it will do is keeping the U.S. from announcing its own decision on Taiwan's dilemma...
...Safeguards Demanded. Few Alaskans foresaw the delay in 1968, when Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) and Humble Oil brought in spectacularly successful wildcat wells at Prudhoe Bay. Reserves were initially estimated at 10 billion barrels, but are now figured to be 15 billion, fully one-third of the nation's total. In the race to begin drilling, supplies were airlifted round the clock by huge Hercules "stretch" freighters from Fairbanks. Adding to the "boomer" spirit, ARCO, Humble and British Petroleum announced plans to spend $900 million to build a 789-mile pipeline from the North Slope to Valdez. In a frenzy...
...Such hopes now seem to be foundering in an Arctic white-out of problems. Some 57,000 Aleuts, Indians and Eskimos, protesting that the pipeline would pass through 641 miles of federal lands claimed to be theirs, demanded compensation. This has forced the Department of Interior to delay construction until the land claims can be settled. Then there were the complaints that the pipeline would ravage Alaska's ecology. The pipeline would traverse three rugged mountain ranges, 23 rivers and three active earthquake zones. Much of the terrain is delicate permafrost, which could become a bog if its surface...
...William Egan pleaded for a decision, but the permit is still not forthcoming. The angry Governor told TIME: "Oil was to be the catalyst to solve our economic difficulties. We are being kept from using our resources and controlling our own future." In turn, Morton recently complained about another delay: "The monkey is on the oil companies' back. I've been two-weeked and two-weeked to death waiting for their safeguard report." By last week, he finally got part of it-16 boxes of data, standing 5 ft. high. Once Morton receives the complete report...
...Fighting Pollution. The companies have derived some unexpected benefits from the delay. Oilmen confess that if they had crash-built the pipeline two years ago, they would have made horrendous mistakes. Since then, they have learned how to deal more expertly with the fierce conditions of climate and geography. To protect the swampy tundra terrain, the companies use offshore drilling techniques. They have developed new strains of grass to grow on disturbed tundra, and they plan to install monitoring devices that would automatically turn off oil flow minutes after a leak is detected. The port of Valdez will have probably...