Word: ores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daniel Schuh Portland, Ore...
Despite the scattered acts of violence, most observers thought that in the long term, Roots would improve race relations, particularly because of the televised version's profound impact on whites. Said John Callahan, professor of American literature at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore.: "We now know our roots are inextricably bound with the roots of blacks and cannot be separated." Many observers also feel that the TV series left whites with a more sympathetic view of blacks by giving them a greater appreciation of black history...
...increases. Production quotas on private industry were lifted. (Businesses had not been allowed to produce as much as they could, out of socialistic concern that their owners might get too rich.) The dominant state-owned sector of industry, which deals in such key goods as steel, coal and iron ore, was enabled to cut through the red tape that has strangled its growth...
...that increasing numbers of Americans are becoming concerned about the unhealthy effects of some forms of birth control. It will be even more gratifying when men begin to take some responsibility and you can report that today's liberated men buy condoms off display racks. Paul Drews Portland, Ore...
...fortunes of Silver Bay are tied to those of the Reserve Mining Co., which produces 15% of the nation's iron ore by extracting it from the area's flint-hard taconite rock. Reserve also employs 80% of the town's work force. In the late 1960s, U.S. Government scientists concluded that the taconite wastes, or tailings, left over from the extraction process did not sink harmlessly into the depths of Lake Superior as everyone supposed they did. Rather, the scientists said, the 67,000 tons of waste dumped each day contained asbestos-like fibers that contaminated...