Word: extract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said the council left out these points because it "was trying to extract from the recommendations in the Strauch report what it thought were the immediate and essential issues...
...conjunction with several other coastal states, has submitted to the Federal Government a positive program calling for prompt exploration to determine the extent of recoverable oil and gas. To protect the public interest the exploration should be subject to thorough controls and be separated from the decision to extract the resources. Any development should be part of a national energy policy created in cooperation with the states and the people and should use methods least damaging to the environment. If the Supreme Court decides that the Federal Government is the proprietor of the offshore areas, then revenues derived from them...
Meanwhile, the government of another country has recognized that it cannot extract all that it would like from the oilmen. Norway had hoped to tax away 90% of the companies' North Sea profits. Last week, however, Oslo's Labor Party government reduced its preliminary tax proposal to 70% to 75% -still too high in the view of the oilmen, but at least a step in their direction...
Ironically, Strindberg takes a traditionally comic situation--a mother and daughter in love with the same man--and uses it, to extract the themes that pervade all four chamber plays: the world is as cruelly fraudulent as the mother in the play, guilt is implicit in life, and death--"the final settling of accounts"--is the one escape route...
...coming of another revival. His easel paintings now fetch up to $90,000, a fat $40 book on him was published last year, and next year's Bicentennial will pour gallons of revisionist nostalgia upon the American regionalists-Benton included. Yet it seems unlikely that future generations will extract much aesthetic pleasure from Benton's big machines. They look like populist camp and are likely to keep doing so. Benton's revival has less to do with his art than with the grass-roots Americana he celebrated, which has gone forever. Besides, they don't make...