Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wells now pump oil right out from underneath Main Street, and dozens more dot the surrounding buttes. Cranes lay down sections of pipe across snow and sagebrush that will carry gas from well to processing plants. Helicopters whir overhead. Hundreds of workers live in trailers and tents in fields, along the river banks, or wherever a friendly rancher will let them camp...
...such data have been used to foretell tremors accurately, they can also be misleading. Because the earth's geology varies greatly, rock in one place might behave in a much different way than rock does elsewhere. Also, monitoring seismic data requires networks of field stations that can automatically pipe information to central analysis points, something few countries can afford. In Italy and indeed throughout the Mediterranean region, predictions are complicated by yet another factor: the area is the meeting place of not just two plates but three or more. Italian Geophysicist Forese Wezel describes the region as "a terrible...
...sharp tongue and mocking sense of social comedy. An unfavorite cousin's face reminds her of a "mandrill's behind." T.S. Eliot's poem Ash Wednesday she greets as "Tom's hard-boiled egg." She describes avoiding an encounter with Ethel Smyth, the doughty, pipe-smoking feminist and composer who became infatuated with her: "I could not face her, though she was passing our door. Her letters sound as if she was in a furious droning mood, like a gale, all on one note...
...brief lameduck session of the outgoing Congress had truly feverish ideas. House Republicans talked about wooing 26 Democratic conservatives away from their party and thus voting Democratic Speaker Tip O'Neill out of his position. On more sober reflection, they decided that was, of course, a pipe dream...
When John Anderson began his independent race for the presidency last April, his campaign was more than a pipe dream and an ego trip. The public opinion polls showed that great numbers of Americans were unhappy with the prospective nominations of Reagan and Carter. They indicated as well that a lot of people were eager for a third choice. Looking back, an Anderson aide said last week: "The whole campaign represents a missed opportunity." The reasons that Anderson failed to exploit his opportunity were a result partly of his own limitations and partly of those of the system. His experience...