Word: feet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lomas daily witness scenes that evoke images from Dante's Inferno. Beneath a perpetual mushroom cloud of pollution rising from a huge garbage dump called Santa Fe, 1,000 pepenadores (those who pick things up) sift through a pile of rubble 1.6 miles long and hundreds of feet high for bones, paper, glass and other recyclable items. By selling this refuse to a trash king, the pepenadores can earn more than the daily minimum wage of $6.25. As a consequence, this wretched work has become a hereditary plum; generations of pepenadores have been born and will die in the squalid...
...script consists of transcriptions of the debates haphazardly strung together with scraps of purposeless personal interchange. It is hard to take seriously a play with straight lines like "Stephen Douglas, get your feet off that table...
...portion of Alberta's 140 trillion cubic feet of natural gas could arrive in New England within two years if the proposed Quebec-Maritime-Maine pipeline is approved by the Canadian National Energy Board, Lee Richardson, one of Lougheed's aides, said yesterday...
...year. Last November, Carl's boy, Ed "A Man Called Flintstone" King, made Governor. Carl's a winner. He mumbles a few words through incredible static. The crowd cheers. I've heard Carl has to tape up his Achilles tendons so tight that he has no feeling in his feet. I've also heard that Carl voted with his feet. Carl's a winner...
...zoning requirement, on the books pending the outcome of the court challenges, sets the maximum height for new construction at 110 feet...