Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University's announcement brought less than friendly response from Con Ed, which needs 300 acres of the 3600-acre forest for a controversial pumped storage power plant it wants to build near Storm King Mountain in Cornwall...
...consumers could also greatly accelerate research into ways of efficiently developing non-Arab sources of fuel. The Rocky Mountain shale and Athabascan tar sands of Canada may hold more oil than all the sands of the Arab deserts; some estimates run as high as 1.5 trillion bbl. Liquefication and gasification of coal could provide a low-polluting way of using that superabundant fuel. But the capital investment required is staggering: $5 billion to $7 billion to get 1,000,000 bbl. of oil a day out of shale or tar sands. Senator Jackson has been advocating a U.S. emergency research...
Although his evidence suggests that the primitive peoples of the region did record the supernova, Michanowsky wants more proof. He will soon begin a search for similar markings in other locations-especially higher up in the Andes, where in the thin mountain air the supernova would have appeared even more brilliant. Perhaps the exploding star inspired other primitive artists to record its fiery appearance...
...coal mining industry in West Virginia with aerial footage of the ravages of strip-mining and the barren lives of the miners who make our warm homes warm. "West Virginia--Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Coal" is a savage indictment of the companies that own and run the mountain state. CH. 5. 9 p.m. Color...
...paying visitor doesn't see: the stupendous technology behind these dinky scaled-down Main Street façades, artificial lakes and unsubmersible Jules Verne submarines on rails. In this, Disney's 50th anniversary year, it appears that the Mouse has labored and brought forth a very odd mountain indeed...