Search Details

Word: move (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Writer Byron, convinced that Americans are the "true villains who waste depletable resources," has embarked upon his own conservation scheme. Last fall, just before he wrote a TIME story on what he calls "forest power," Byron installed two woodburning stoves in his Connecticut home. The move, he reports, "took $1,000 off my winter heating fuel bill." Tompkins, who lives in a Manhattan apartment building, doubts that wood is the proper alternative energy source for him, but does keep in touch with some relatives in Arizona who are building solar homes. That, says Tompkins, gazing out his office window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 7, 1979 | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...height of the Three Mile Island crisis, dozens of pregnant women and children were evacuated to Hershey, Pa., twelve miles away from the crippled reactor. The move was a precautionary one to protect them against any radioactive fallout. For a while state officials even considered evacuating Hershey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nixing Nukes | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...laxwomen hope that the momentum will continue to move in their favor when they face Dartmouth tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the season's final home game...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Laxwomen Score Upset Over Bulldogs | 5/2/1979 | See Source »

...second big company to move into the area was Kerr McGee. In the mid-1950s, Kerr McGee discovered the uranium reserves of the Navajo Nation. Within a few years, the company had developed a series of underground uranium mines and a uranium mill at Shiprock, the major population center of the Navajo reservation. According to provisions of the BIA-negotiated lease, Kerr McGee held rights to the land "for as long as the ore is producing in payable quantities." The BIA viewed the mines as a welcome boost to the Navajo economy, providing jobs for a people plagued with unemployment...

Author: By Winona LA Duke westigaard, | Title: Uranium Mines on Native Land | 5/2/1979 | See Source »

...Kerr McGee began to move out of Shiprock, abandoning uranium mine shafts and the uranium mill in favor of awaiting ore bodies found elsewhere on the reservation. In the early 1970s, the long-term effects of low-level radiation began to take their toll among the Navajo miner workforce. By 1974, 18 Navajo uranium miners had died from radiation-induced lung cancer, with many more near the hospitalization stage. Kerr McGee refused to take any responsibility or to pay medical expenses. As Kerr McGee spokesman Bill Phillips told one reporter in Washington, "I couldn't tell you what happened...

Author: By Winona LA Duke westigaard, | Title: Uranium Mines on Native Land | 5/2/1979 | See Source »

Previous | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | Next