Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Priscilla Korell, a spokesman for Boston Edison Co., said yesterday the greatest drain on the Boston power lines occurs during the summer...
...Miller cheerfully held up a crumpled dollar bill at a news conference in San Francisco. Grinning, he declared: "My purpose is to make this dollar grow." His first priority at the Treasury Department, he said, will be "to continue the war against inflation," which he still regards as "the greatest threat to our nation...
...scheme had been a big mistake. Abandoned by the leader whose cause they had supported for so long, the national guard began to disintegrate. In a matter of hours, every one of Somoza's pilots, who had mercilessly bombed and strafed the barrios where the Sandinistas had their greatest support, had defected to neighboring countries. Soon Urcuyo flew to Guatemala and asked for asylum...
...RaRa Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen/ Russia's greatest love machine...
...major problem is not financial but environmental. Extracting oil from shale is thought to be the greatest pollution threat. Thus, the toughest environmental battles will probably rage in Colorado and other shale-rich Western states, which have generally strict pollution-control laws. There will also be local resistance to coal gasification and liquefaction plants because they pollute the air with fumes from burning and lead to a noisy, dust-spewing increase in rail traffic to bring in the coal. On the other side, labor unions and various local groups will be eager to attract synfuel plants-particularly in Appalachia-because...