Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups are allied to stop or at least to stall shale development. Water, a precious resource in the tri-state region, is one of their greatest concerns. Conservationists claim that shale extraction could use from one to five barrels of water for each barrel of oil, but company officials maintain much less would be required. Critics also argue that the underground marl-cooking process could release salts, and perhaps even arsenic, into the region's ground water. Shale opponents protest finally that the surface-retorting process leaves piles of rubble and dust behind that would ruin the pristine Rocky...
...against John Paul II's recent pronouncements rather remarkable and even amusing. Apparently many of his critics fail to realize that the Pope is not concerned with his standing in the popularity polls. As the Vicar of Christ, there is only one pollster whose approval he desires to maintain...
...Mahler once burst out to his recalcitrant colleagues: "What you theater people call your tradition is nothing but your comfort and your laziness." Maazel seems prepared to line up with Mahler when he says: "Opera has to be renewed constantly. I shall not hesitate to break with tradition to maintain the excellence of this company...
...pretty fed up with not being able to maintain a normal workout schedule," Forman recalls. "It wasn't as if I could just work around my injury because everytime I tried something else went wrong...
turned the facility over to Metropolitan Edison, but Met Ed, contends the commission, was ''lacking sufficient knowledge, expertise and personnel to operate the plant and maintain it properly...