Word: might
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extract gold from such low-grade deposits, miners must crush tons and tons of rock, which is piled into mammoth heaps and irrigated with cyanide. The cyanide percolates through the heap, extracting the gold. In the early days of the invisible-gold rush, a ton of ore might contain a few tenths of an ounce of gold. Today that minuscule amount would be considered high grade. Says Livermore: "They're mining deposits that we would have considered waste rock back in 1961." Nevada mines are now digging up a ton of rock to get back as little...
...have the votes to override a presidential veto. But Senate majority leader George Mitchell urged Bush to reconsider, pointedly recalling his vacillating stands on the issue. "The President has already changed his position on abortion once, in 1980," Mitchell observed dryly. "He can do so again." Democrats might even prefer a veto. After being outmaneuvered in recent weeks on tax cuts and the American flag, they relish the prospect of watching Bush explain why he rejected federal help for poor women facing a horrible predicament. "This isn't about teenagers getting pregnant in a car at the drive-in movie...
...faltering buyout of UAL, the parent of United Airlines, combines with signs of a new burst of inflation to put stock prices into a spin. The drop rekindles concerns that a debt-laden era might be coming to grief and provokes fears of a bearish season ahead...
...issued by Ronald Reagan, says, "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination." The Bush people claim that this standing order even made it hard for the U.S. to aid the recent coup because someone might have spontaneously shot the general, though that may just be an excuse for the Administration's incompetence...
...Yorkers rarely glimpse, has been given back to the people, as Battery Park City embraces the wide and wonderful Hudson. The shore has been beribboned by a sculpture-studded esplanade, a mile-long stroll leading to the South Cove. There, grasses and boulders are untamed, as the riverbank might have been when Indians apprehensively watched approaching sails. Says Sally-Jane Heit, an actress-writer who was a 1982 "pioneer" in the first apartment tower: "It's a fantasy world, a sculpted cutout. You sit there and listen to the primal sound of the water whooshing...