Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel had, no matter what party is running the White House at the time." Or the country might become self-satisfied and flaccid. "Optimism does not mean that we should not be cognizant of the real problems that we face," says Orthodox Rabbi Stanley Wagner, president of the Rocky Mountain Rabbinical Council. "The cheerful mood can easily be converted into hedonism, which in turn can trigger a destruction of the moral fiber of American life." The conversion of the burgeoning self-esteem into a new selfishness may already have begun. Among students of the preppie Landon School in Bethesda...
...plane, it's (Can you see it coming?) Superman in a plane. Christopher Reeve, 32, who soared to fame as the Man of Steel, is starring next in The Aviator as a rugged, '20s mail pilot. His plane crashes, and Reeve is marooned on a mountain with the companion able Rosanna Arquette. Reeve, an experienced pilot who has soloed across the Atlantic, did all his own flying in the film, a claim he cannot make about his earlier aerial incarnation...
...site chosen is Mauna Kea, a mountain on the island of Hawaii. There is strong support for the project both by the U.S. government and the state of Hawaii which has a large Japanese population. Completion is expected in the early 1990s...
...entirely on the level. The forest was the source of another major controversy in 1973 when Consolidated Edison, which had had its eye on the forest since the mid-1960s, unsuccessfully sought to buy and flood 340 acres of Black Rock as part of the later abandoned Storm King Mountain hydroelectric power plant. Harvard appointed a committee to look into whether the land should be sold and, in January 1973, which drew up a report detailing the potential environmental nightmares which Storm King would have created--but advised Harvard "not to oppose" selling the land to Con Ed. Only after...
Battered by cheap imports from Chile, Peru and Zaire, U.S. copper mining has been tarnished in the past few years. The twelve major producers now employ a mere 25,000 workers, down 50% in ten years, and the mines, primarily in the Rocky Mountain states, are running at 60% of capacity. Copper consumption is up 14% this year from last, but American mines simply cannot match competitors in the Third World. They have kept output high and prices down to around 60? per lb., vs. the 82? average cost of U.S. production. Despite those troubles, the Reagan Administration last week...