Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blowout, which discharged 336,000 gallons of crude oil, Californians faced an even worse spill last week. This time two Standard Oil of California tankers collided in dense fog under Golden Gate Bridge and drifted helplessly into San Francisco Bay. With a 40-ft. gash in her hull, the Oregon Standard gushed 1,000,000 gallons of bunker fuel oil that soon coated beaches and wildlife sanctuaries for 50 miles of the coast. Some people were so incensed at Standard Oil that they hurled plastic bags full of oil at the company's downtown San Francisco office and dumped...
...variations in the velocity of seismic waves under different parts of the West. He also points to much more conspicuous signs of its presence: the hot springs in California and Yellowstone National Park, the remnants of old volcanoes-Arizona's Kitt Peak, for example, and Crater Lake in Oregon-the upward tilt of the American plains as they stretch westward toward the Rockies and the shape of the mountains themselves. Unlike the Andes or even the closer Canadian Rockies -both of which were squeezed up by massive lateral pressures-the American Rockies seem to have been at least partially...
...first half gave it the advantage it had. Grabbing 28 rebounds to Penn's 18, the Crimson overcame the Quakers near the middle of the first half, and went into the locker room with a narrow lead. But the second half has plagued Harvard all season (Michigan, Oregon, Ohio State), and Penn capitalized...
...opening round of the Far West Classic Harvard trailed Oregon by one point at half-time, but the Ducks pulled away in the second half to top Harvard, 91-76. Oregon eventually won the tournament...
Brown again paced the Crimson with 19 points, while Matt Bozek added 16. Lewis, who is averaging 14.7 rebounds a game, grabbed 12 against Oregon...