Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Employees: est. 24,000 Mission: To monitor U.S. and foreign communications coming from satellites, land-based transmitters and submarines. To break foreign codes and ensure the security of the Government's own communications...
...clash is a result of society's increasing demand for energy and the refusal by some of its members to meet that demand by despoiling the land. The companies protest that the only alternative, burying the line, would be economically and technically unfeasible. Farmers have suggested running most of the line through state-owned land. But the state does not want the line either. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources claims that the line might "affect the behavior of animals and change wildlife habitat and affect the physiological state or conditions of plants and animals." Harrumphs Farmer Art Isackson...
...have only imprecise figures. The lowest foreign estimate of Chinese reserves, a 1977 guess by the American Petroleum Institute, puts them at 20 billion bbl.; if those reserves were proven, China would rank ninth in the world. The CIA has a far higher estimate: 39 billion bbl. below dry land and perhaps that much offshore-a grand total that would place China neck and neck with the Soviet Union for second place, behind Saudi Arabia...
...recent poll gave him a 68% rating, down from 80% in November but still higher than anything enjoyed by his predecessor, Yitzhak Rabin. He commands his Cabinet like an authoritarian godfather, and internal opposition is all but stilled. But Begin seems unable to contemplate surrendering any inch of land in the occupied territories where Israelis have settled, even when these footholds are clearly illegal. Last week his government stood by in silence as zealous Israeli nationalists of Gush Emunim (Band of the Faithful), under the protection of Israeli soldiers, established the cornerstone for a new settlement at Shiloh, 30 miles...
Members of the Land Re-use Committee, the board that will recommend a developer for the 4.2-acre site to the State Secretary of Finance, heard opinions during an hour-and-a-half reserved for public comments. The discussion followed a half-hour slide presentation by the two developers...