Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the people behind the door, who are generals and admirals and Cabinet members, and about the object of the games they play, which generally have a lot to do with wiping out foreign civilizations. And then the realization hits you, like a hard icy lump in the pit of your stomach. The friendly folks who brought you Vietnam and Cambodia are back for more good times...
...should think of our allies, the guerrilas fighting in Zimbabwe, as they pit their courage against the over-whelming superior armed might of the illegal Ian Smith regime. And the people of now-independent Mozambique, amid their own struggle against poverty and exploitation, who closed their border to Rhodesian goods in solidarity with the guerrillas--an action that hurt their own economy...
...year at Norfolk, polishing productions and scouting new talent. Another power behind Mary's throne is Edythe Harrison, the iron-willed president of V.O.A. A self-proclaimed promoter, she hounded-among others-her next-door neighbor Norfolk Mayor Vincent Thomas for support; the city finally built an orchestra pit in the Center Theater and refurbished it (at a combined cost of $100,000). She even, so the story goes, got a little help on the side from the Navy in transporting the Scottish Opera's ornate costumes from Scotland to Norfolk...
Certainly the coal is there. Beneath the pit heads of Appalachia and the Ohio Valley, and under the sprawling strip mines of the West, lie coal seams rich enough to meet the country's power needs for centuries, no matter how much energy consumption may grow. The physical task of digging the coal is no great problem. But the key question is whether industry can be tempted or prodded into burning the coal in the prodigious quantities that the National Energy Plan contemplates. Officially, Washington's answer is put bluntly by Secretary of Energy James Schlesinger: "We have...
...force to recommend a national policy for the disposal of nuclear wastes, a prerequisite for large-scale nuclear development. The transportation and storage of spent fuel and other dangerous wastes have been so obstructed by technical and bureaucratic delays that only one active repository, a steel and concrete storage pit filled with water, located near the small town of Morris, Ill., is in operation. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates that as many as five or six additional sites will be needed by the year...