Word: moving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other, Juneau is accessible only by boat or plane; frequent rains and fog and surrounding lofty mountains often make landings a pilot's nightmare. For these reasons, Alaskans have long debated a possible change of capitals. In 1974, after two unsuccessful initiatives, they finally voted to make the move, and the hunt began for a new site...
Still, some time may pass before construction begins. Pockets of resistance remain; some residents of Juneau and Fairbanks, annoyed because the new site is close to Anchorage, are still trying to scuttle the move. No one knows yet how the future capital will be financed (estimated cost: $2.64 billion) or even what it will be called. One obvious possibility: Denali...
Will Evangelicalism simply go on consoling people in the face of alienation and apocalyptic fear, a not inconsiderable mission? Or will it move toward a "Third Great Awakening" that might help to regenerate American life? That is a matter for history to decide. In the history of Evangelicalism itself, there are precedents for both directions...
...trend toward violence in the N.B.A. has been accelerated in recent years by the glorification of "enforcers" -players whose talents lie less in ball handling and shooting than in their ability to intimidate opposing players. The Tomjanovich tragedy has shown that the N.B.A. must move quickly to clean its house, or, in the words of Rocket Guard Calvin Murphy, "Someone will be seriously killed...
...week "Mile High" was an understatement for the mood of a city with a fast-improving pro hockey team, a division-leading team in the National Basketball Association, a football team on the top of the National Football League and its first major league baseball team apparently ready to move into town...