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Word: dust (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corruption here is worse than in Chicago," declared Yant. "You don't need to dig here; all you have to do is dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Just a Typical American Town | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...Thus, the toughest environmental battles will probably rage in Colorado and other shale-rich Western states, which have generally strict pollution-control laws. There will also be local resistance to coal gasification and liquefaction plants because they pollute the air with fumes from burning and lead to a noisy, dust-spewing increase in rail traffic to bring in the coal. On the other side, labor unions and various local groups will be eager to attract synfuel plants-particularly in Appalachia-because they will bring jobs and wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lighting Up Synfuel's Future | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...layered cloud cover, is riddled by continuous lightning bolts and scarred by a rift valley and mountain peak more grandiose than any on earth, and has totally unexpected abundances of primordial neon and argon. Their presence suggests new ideas about the nature of the great cloud of gases and dust from which the sun and planets were born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: It's the Robots' Turn, by Jove! | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...which includes start-up costs, staff, publicity, hall rent and partying. There is no specific allocation for authors who would rather take the money and write. The first Bookies are scheduled to be presented in the spring of 1980, when an appropriately distinguished M.C. suspensefully requests, "The dust jacket, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oscarette | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...TODAY the earth, speeding along at the present clip of 66,000 miles per hour, will have circled the sun exactly ten times since two men inside a spidery little space craft wrapped in gold tin foil hit the dust of the Sea of Tranquility...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: How Giant A Leap | 7/20/1979 | See Source »

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