Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overtime provisions to public employees next year. Policemen, for example, will be paid overtime for hours worked beyond 60 in any given week, even though some of the first 60 hours were spent in uniform working not for the city but for a department store as a guard. Salt Lake City Mayor EJ. Garn estimates that the amendments will cost his city $500,000 next year in increased pay alone and more than $3 million three years from now in overtime. This week the League of Cities will file suit in U.S. district court in Washington, D.C., seeking to have...
...cash in on The Godfather. This moment occurs at the end of the establishing sequence that deliberately challenges comparison to the great wedding scene that opened the earlier film. The occasion for a party this time is the First Communion of Michael Corleone's son. The setting is Lake Tahoe, where Michael, as the new head of the "family," has moved his home office in order to run his casino operations in Nevada. An emptily handsome U.S. Senator commands attention in order to acknowledge receipt of Michael's handsomely empty contribution to the state university's scholarship...
...meet the heavy cost of environmental regulations, vigorous enforcement of these laws and technological innovations have begun to cleanse the nation's air and water. The atmosphere in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles is cleaner than last year, and fish are flourishing once again in Lake Erie and the Hudson River...
...remote Awash Valley, he was so excited that he could hardly gasp out the news. Only five minutes' walk from the tents, he had just spotted a completely intact human-like jawbone sticking out from under a layer of volcanic rock on the shore of a dry lake. Alemayehu Asfaw figured that the fossil was at least as old as the rock-and the rock had already been dated as more than 3 million years...
...beetle-browed, stoop-shouldered brute called Homo erectus, who appeared in Africa about a million or so years ago. But two years ago, Richard Leakey, following in the footsteps of his famed anthropologist father, the late Louis B. Leakey, undermined that theory. Digging near Kenya's Lake Rudolf, he uncovered fragments that were assembled into a nearly complete manlike skull that is at least 2.6 million years old. Leakey's find suggested that creatures amazingly like modern man were prowling about Africa long before Homo erectus appeared...