Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entry was Marie Ruman, night janitor in an office building in Yellowknife (pop. 10,000), a gold-mining town on Great Slave Lake, some 1,000 miles north of the Montana border. She saw what "looked like a jet on fire. There were dozens of little pieces following the main body, all burning and each with its little tail of fire just like the big piece." At a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment in Hay River, 125 miles south of Yellowknife, Corporal Phil Pitts saw a "bright white and incandescent" glowing object and reported it as a meteorite. Told later...
Because the Kremlin treats reserves as state secrets, it is not easy to project production figures. According to the latest estimates by the U.S. Geological Survey, Soviet proven and estimated onshore reserves stand at an impressive 80 billion bbl. The main problem is that the most promising reserves are located in barren, inhospitable areas where drilling is extremely difficult. In the western Siberian fields, tall drilling rigs perch precariously on unstable peat that freezes rock hard in winter and heaves and shifts in summer...
Seeking to boost output, China's oil technocrats now are drilling new onshore wells in the country's northwest regions. But their main hope is to strike rich offshore deposits. In the past few years, China has built or bought ten offshore rigs, including a secondhand North
...these unaccustomed comings and goings in Peking in the past two weeks testified to China's new eagerness to shore up its worldwide diplomatic position. Main reason: the outbreak of war between Viet Nam and Cambodia in December has disrupted what until recently seemed a successful effort by the Chinese to win new friends and influence throughout Southeast Asia at the expense of the Soviets. Peking's inability to prevent the fighting between its Indochinese neighbors has been a serious foreign policy failure, and in some ways its struggle to stay friends with two smaller and mutually hostile...
...Laroche took off with a multicolor batwing evening dress. From Lanvin came a sheer-topped gown with delicate pastel embroidery, and from Courrèges, a skirt and blouse combination laden with ruffles. For most of high fashion's critics, clients, and trend watchers, the week's main feature was the Saint Laurent collection. Paris' No. 1 designer, who launched the costume revolution with his Russian, gypsy, Cossack fashions of 1976, had presaged a return to modernity with his ready-to-wear show last October. "There is no more revolution," observed Madame Ida, the maestro...