Word: heighte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When competition for building the pipeline first began in the late 1960s, leading Canadian and U.S. firms, among them Pacific Gas and Electric and Texas Eastern Corp., banded together in what seemed like an unbeatable consortium called the Arctic Gas Pipeline Project. The group, which at its height included 27 companies, proposed to construct a 48-in. line. It would begin at the Alaskan field of Prudhoe Bay (proven reserves of 26 trillion cu. ft., enough to supply current U.S. needs for more than a year) and follow the northern coastline to Canada's Mackenzie Bay deposits before heading...
...height of the partying, I look up to see someone looking down on the action from a second-floor window. The person does not look happy. A woman in the crowd notices the observer too, and waves, shouting a cheery hello. Instantly, the face disappears from the window. The woman below shrugs her shoulders and returns to the fray...
...plant, which measures a foot in height, grows wild in a large area reaching eastward from the Ozarks and is cultivated commercially. The mature root, usually four inches long, weighs less than an ounce. Diggers send the roots to a handful of dealers, like Willard Magee in Eolia, Mo.; he will mail back a check based on wholesale prices (currently $95 to $110 per lb. for wild and $45 to $50 for cultivated). Though wild ginseng accounts for only 26% of U.S. production, it commands much higher prices than the cultivated variety because it is thought to be more potent...
...quietly rising through cracks under the peak of the mountain, building up tremendous pressures and triggering repeated earth tremors that rocked Hokkaido. Finally, on Aug. 7, the 725-meter (2,400-ft.) Usu awakened with a roar like that of a bomb. A huge black cloud soared to a height of 12,000 meters (39,000 ft.). A dense shower of gray ash and chunks of porous, rock-like pumice poured out of the cloud...
...instructor, Bill Lewis. They aim a battery-powered fan into the limp mouth of their balloon, Fat Albert, breathing life into the sagging nylon skin. Then Lewis ignites the propane burner. With a roar, hot air fills the billowing mushroom, which swells with dignity to its magnificent seven-story height...