Word: ores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edith Green, (D-Ore.), author of Title IX, initiated the action of the Labor HEW Appropriation Bill conference, which decided the budget for HEW's fiscal year...
Producers of other materials, too, are now banding together to try to lift prices. Countries that possess iron ore (including Venezuela and Brazil) and seven bauxite producers (Guinea, Guyana, Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Surinam, Australia and Yugoslavia) are talking about forming cartels. Coffee-producing nations hope to control prices by reducing exports from the Central American republics. Oil-rich Venezuela promises to make up their short-term losses in revenues with subsidies from a special investment fund...
...years, thousands of U.S. high schools have taught "life adjustment" courses to introduce adolescents to the trials and tribulations of marriage. Since 1970, Parkrose High School in Portland, Ore., has been carrying the instruction one step further; its twelve-week course on contemporary family life starts with the students pretending to get married -and ends with them pretending to get divorced...
...recyclers, shred the combustible materials and burn them along with coal to create electrical power. When the system goes into full effect in 1977, Union will reduce its annual purchases of coal by 1 million tons. Similarly, the Coors brewery near Denver, a Georgia-Pacific plant in Toledo, Ore., and several other companies are also creating power by burning garbage in furnaces. Further variations on this basic formula are being planned in Chicago, Columbus, Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Washington, D.C., among other cities...
Mere Camouflage. Heesch, an unemployed truck driver, pleaded guilty to toppling two BPA towers near Brightwood, Ore., and using the U.S. mail to extort money. He faces 22 years in prison and a $20,500 fine. Sheila Heesch also pleaded guilty of being an accomplice to the dynamiting of two other towers near Maupin, 145 miles southeast of Portland, and to one count of extortion in the blackmail attempt...