Word: digging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very difficult first year, but in the last six months a number of things we've been working on have come through," Peterson said, adding that "You have to dig a lot of wells before you come up with...
Slow and dirty, but steady. The fading structures of a decaying city are the great mineral mines and hardware shops of the nation. Break them down and re-use the parts. Coal is too difficult to dig up and transport to give us energy in the amounts we need, nuclear fission is judged to be too dangerous, the technical breakthrough toward nuclear fusion that we hoped for never took place, and solar batteries are too expensive to maintain on the earth's surface in sufficient quantity...
...just how limited global water supplies really are. In many areas of the U.S. West, for example, the current drought (TIME, March 7) has accelerated the depletion of underground aquifers already strained by the rapid growth in population and agriculture. Many wells have already run dry, forcing farmers to dig deeper and more expensive ones in an effort to reach the declining water levels. Some farmers in the Texas Panhandle, who have been drawing their water from the deep and bounteous Ogallala aquifer, calculate that their wells will run dry -drought or no drought-soon after the year...
...secret in the past, thereby often failing to enlist understanding and support from the U.S. public. Ventilating a difficult idea, he believes, can be healthy. Of his Middle East suggestion, one Washington official observes: "It gets the Israelis off some of their unrealistic notions about how far they can dig in their heels and gives them two months to talk about it before their election." It also gives Arab leaders something to consider as they prepare for their own meetings with Carter in coming weeks...
...pinned at the White House" for staged events when she could be out developing stories. Says she: "If I had the chance, I'd like to have my own half-hour interview program, or be one of the reporters on a weekly television magazine show where you could dig into a story at greater depth." At present, Berger is trying to put more decibels into her scholarly, soft-voiced delivery: "I should project more, be more dramatic...