Word: digging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stakes are high. Evidently expecting to receive the go-ahead, Harvard has already directed the engineering firm handling the $109 million project to dig up a city block and pour the foundation. The site has been swarming with workers in the past months...
...just beneath them, waiting to be revealed by further excavation next year. "We know from 19th century maps of the site that there are large walls with stone gateways buried beneath the mound," says Richard Fazzini, curator of Egyptian art at the Brooklyn Museum and field director of the dig...
...potsherds and other fragments that the team has already collected. The archaeologists are likely to need a lot more shopping bags before they are finished. Only a fraction of Mut's temple grounds have been explored thus far. Manning estimates that it will take another 25 years to dig up the rest...
...counters James Hoge, editor in chief of Chicago's Sun-Times and Daily News. "If you don't vigorously go after the story, people say you're lazy. If you do, people say you are picking on the people involved. You just have to continue to dig and print what you think is newsworthy." St. Louis Post-Dispatch Reporter Thomas Ottenad thinks reporters had no choice but to go after Lance, especially after the comptroller's report pronounced him innocent only of actual violation of law. "There were things in there that cried out for further...
...trade has flourished, the supply of wild ginseng has decreased-some experts estimate by as much as 20% during the past decade. Rising prices have encouraged even more ginseng digging, and this has further depleted supplies. So the Government is considering putting wild ginseng on a list of endangered species Washington already requires licenses for exports of wild ginseng, and the brand-new, four-member U.S. Endangered Species Scientific Authority banned exports of wild ginseng altogether last month, but exempts states that require a permit to dig wild roots...