Word: low
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, Utah and Nevada generally defeat such attempts. As I left town, the land changed from low foothill country of Colorado. Watered hillocks gave way to the terrifying, barren and twisted land that sees less than seven inches of rain a year. The road, no longer flanked by fences and farms, cannot remain a symbol of man's secure hold on his own turf. It seems instead an imposition, almost an irrelevance. As I passed the turnoff to Salt Lake other motorists evaporated. I was left all alone on a superhighway, seeing five cars in half an hour...
...winter. Last week, when the refinery was a month away from partial operation, Fluor called home its 52 remaining American employees, leaving Thyssen to finish the job. The few U.S. businessmen who remain in Iran represent a couple of banks and a computer company, and they are lying low...
...came across the low-lying fields as a drifting fog that some men saw as gray, some as yellow, some as green."Thus did Historian Ralph Allen describe the deadly mist of chlorine gas that ravaged the Canadian First Division at Ypres in 1915. Last week, as Canada celebrated Remembrance Day-the 61st anniversary of the end of World War I-fear of another kind of chlorine gas attack forced the evacuation of Mississauga...
...court that at least one major spill would occur over 20 years. Worse yet, warned Foy, would be the almost continuous discharges from day-to-day operations. Adds Biologist Howard Sanders of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: "There is a very real danger to Georges Bank fish from low-level chronic pollution...
...this year's third quarter, and managers have attempted to divert public criticism by pumping up exploration budgets. A number of independents are still holding back until the windfall profits tax reaches final form. The Senate has proposed that newly discovered oil and certain categories of low-volume wells be exempt. Some oilmen hope that the first 1,000 bbl. per day from an independent producer's well will be free from the tax. Says Jack Allen, president of the Independent Petroleum Association of America: "That would really set off a wave of drilling. It would...