Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state twice as large as Texas, but with only half the population of Washington, D.C., the choices would seem limitless. But planners were faced with many troublesome restrictions. Because of the intense rivalry between Anchorage and Fairbanks, the No. 2 city (pop. 52,200). both were ruled out. For the same reason, the new capital had to be at least 30 miles from either locality. Also the land had to be state owned; anticipating large new tax revenues from the booming oil fields and the trans-Alaska pipeline, Alaska has gone on a spending binge that has brought...
...accelerate their search for oil in remote areas, where production costs are higher than in, say, Texas or Louisiana. Yet increased oil production is not all that is needed; vast amounts of energy are available from unconventional and extremely costly sources such as tar sands and shale, and potentially limitless energy is at hand in the form of solar and geothermal power. The best-and most likely-compromise solution is to retain the wellhead tax but channel some of the proceeds into research and development programs for unconventional sources...
STEELY DAN has freed itself from the musical and expressive structures inherent in rock and roll. With mixed results, they are reckoning with their limitless potential...
Because of their limitless potential, this progression, Becker's scorching leads are sorely missed in the music. Steely Dan's ability to rock'n'roll attrated many of their current fans, and in Aja they have abandoned the juiced-up riffs of "Reelin' in the Years," and settled down to a contemporary jazz guitar, which is only intermittently prominent in the music. Sax, horns, vibes and keyboards carry the tunes to their destination, and in a very sophisticated...
...triumph. It is sad Steely Dan left its rock and rollpulpit for the endless plane of jazz; it is one of a handful of bands which can do justice to a rapidly whithering art. But Aja comes across as Steely Dan's "breaking on thru"; their growth is so limitless and their potential so boundless that it way only a matter of time before Aja had to arrive. Becker and Fagen are all that's left of the original Dan. Their everpressing musical curiosity has surfaced and taken hold to produce an album so technically sound it teases the senses...