Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Great Yellowstone Mine Shootout. The dispute began in the late 1980s as new techniques for locating pay dirt suddenly turned old claims on Henderson into a $1 billion lode of extractable ore. The glitch was that the peak is a scant 2.5 miles upstream from Yellowstone National Park. Environmental groups, warning that a megamine would poison the park's ecosystem, threatened massive lawsuits against Crown Butte, the company planning a round-the-clock extraction effort. Then the Administration stepped in, and after months of secret talks, Crown Butte agreed to swap the mine for $65 million worth of government holdings...
...weeks after an 11-4 drubbing at the hands of the UMass Minutemen in the Beanpot final at Fenway Park, the Harvard baseball team turned things around with a 10-4 victory Wednesday at a wind-whipped O'Donnell Field...
Last Friday night, just as I was attempting to finish off a satisfying night of Quad parties with a nightcap in Adams House, I was stopped by the sight of two black couples in a blue sedan trying to park...
Despite my voice of opposition, the white male's threats--both spoken and physical--intimidated the two black couples into complying. They left without being able to pull into the spot they had searched for. After all, what right did they have to park wherever they wanted...
...said a victim's relative in disbelief. "Not in a town where people tip cows for fun." Franklin was a place where the local cultural establishment was the Mineral Museum, where the arrows for fun (ski resorts, zoo, theme park) point out of town. Now Franklin is the town where Thomas Koskovich, 18, and Jayson Vreeland, 17, allegedly spent part of Saturday night calling area pizzerias for two plain cheese pies, finally enticing two deliverymen to an abandoned house on Scott Road...