Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Colony Development Operation, a consortium of companies including Atlantic Richfield and Standard Oil of Ohio, has spent $1,000,000 on detailed environmental studies of the problem. Conclusion: the powdered shale can be dumped into canyons, watered, fertilized and planted with vegetation to prevent winds from blowing it into dust storms. All this can be done, says Colony, with minimal harm to the delicate ecology of the semi-arid region. Environmentalists wonder whether all companies would be so careful. If they were not, occasional rains would leach residual salts out of the wastes, sweep them into streams, and thus contaminate...
Whipple said that by viewing Kohoutek, he hopes to confirm his "dirty snowball" theory, which holds that the comet's nucleus is composed of dust particles imbedded in the ices of simple molecules of water, methane and ammonia...
...said that dust pollution and light pollution will make observation of the comet in the city of Boston "futile." Celestial enthusiasts should go to the west of the city to see Kohoutek under optimum conditions, Whipple said...
...Nobody will be able to walk into our pits thinking they can just dust us right off," he said. "Overall, the picture is one that makes me wish I had my six months off some other time...
...desert; there are no rivers or lakes. Summer temperatures boil up to 120° in the forenoon, and nights can be shiveringly cool. During the month-long spring gale, or shamal, the blowing sand sifts into the loose robes worn by most Saudis and mantles the cities in white powdery dust...