Word: gasp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...centralized energy grid is a plague to dairy farmers of west central Minnesota. As George Crocker of the General Assembly to Stop the Power Line (GASP) puts it, "Starting almost a decade ago, the industry started to get ideas about the western coal front. As soon as the plans materialized, the people started fighting a struggle, which has taken many forms for almost eight years...
...endemic to all communities. "The government and the companies tell the people along the direct current line that the direct current line is the safest, and along the alternating current line that the alternating current line is the safest," says Crocker. Meanwhile, says Gloria Woida, a dairy farmer in GASP, "The companies came out and told us to put grounding wires on our tractors and equipment to prohibit shock and other side effects." Cows have died from shock and crop yield is down in the Four Corners area, where high-voltage power lines are even lower in voltage than those...
...Lions had one final gasp as Conroy struck paydirt with a 43-yd. pass play to the speedy Steve Wallace down the left sideline first down following a 19-yd. Harvard punt...
...Fahrenheit Eighty (Gasp!)" [July 9], you seem unaware that mankind survived and productivity grew by leaps at temperatures far lower than 65° F and far higher than 80° F. In pre-air-conditioning days, books and clothing survived, people did not faint by droves in the street, and some of the world's classiest restaurants struggled...
...will have to come down from the Catoctin Mountains with a dramatic answer to that question because at week's end the explanation for the Camp David mystery seemed to be nothing more-or less-than a spectacular display of White House ineptitude, followed by a desperate, last-gasp scramble to salvage something from the wreckage. By all indications from Administration aides, Carter canceled his energy speech because he realized, only 30 hours before he was to go on prime-time TV, that he was unprepared to say very much. In part, this was because of deep divisions among...