Word: gals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What a Gal...
Hurrah for Marabel Morgan [March 14]! What a gal! Her concerns, beliefs and fresh, wholesome image are a welcome relief from the hardcore, ego-stomping, stern-looking, rebellious feminists and their so-called movement-who want, as you could guess, to be just like what they despise...
...other areas, though, there are ample reserves-including an aquifer recently discovered under northeastern Wyoming that experts believe might yield as much as 6,000 liters (1,600 gal.) a minute for decades to come. "There is plenty of water in the U.S.," says Donovan Kelly of the Department of Interior's Geological Survey. "It's simply not where you need...
DESALINATION. Though Israel-which gets little or no rain for up to eight months of the year-draws much of its water from the Jordan River, it also gets part of its supply from the sea. Israeli desalination plants now desalt 3 million cubic meters (7.8 billion gal.) of sea water every year. The cost is high ($1 per cubic meter), but the Israelis have little choice. In Saudi Arabia, where cost is no object, the government has embarked on a $12 billion program that will enable it to desalt 2.3 billion liters (600 million gal...
Under the plan, Detroit's beloved dinosaur, thumping its chrome-plated tail, is doomed for the swamps of extinction. The new plan will impose an excise tax on the purchase of large cars. Under consideration as a fallback plan is a gasoline tax, beginning with 5? per gal. and rising at regular intervals to 50? or $1 in order to discourage Americans from buying big gas-guzzling autos. According to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, which the new Administration is embracing, each manufacturer by 1980 must produce a line of cars that achieve an average...