Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard of Montreal, Tom Bladon of the Flyers, and Islander Bryan Trottier. 3. Stefan Persson with 60 in 1977-78 for the Islanders. 4. Ken Dryden. 1971 Smythe winner, 1972 Calder winner. 5. Hardy Aastrom. 6. New York Islander Glenn "Chico" Resch stopped the Philadelphia Flyers' Bill Barber. 7. Pit Martin. 8. 1975: Islanders over Penguins: 1942: Maple Leafs over Red Wings. 9. Montreal Canadiens 1, Boston Bruins 0. 10. 39 years, since 1940. 11. 1974--Flyers beat Rangers in semis. four games to three. 12. True. Washington tied Montreal, 4-4, in a game at Capital Centre last April...
...Coal Triangle, it contains an estimated 50 billion tons of lignite, enough to meet West Germany's energy needs for 350 years. Unfortunately for the villagers who sit atop this fossil fuel bonanza, much of it lies just below the surface; it can only be recovered by open-pit or strip mining, which requires relocating the people and demolishing their houses before any coal is removed...
...nuclear power. As a result, West Germany, like the U.S., has turned increasingly to coal as its ace in the hole. The nation now relies on brown coal for 30% of its electrical power and 25% of its home heating needs. Rheinbraun alone has already dug seven open-pit mines, including the world's largest: the Fortuna-Garsdorf pit, which measures roughly 1.2 miles across and about 820 ft. deep. In October it began preliminary excavation at the giant 32-sq.-mi. Hambach site, parts of which will be gouged more than a quarter of a mile into...
...usual, Rheinbraun's resettlement teams have been at work well in advance of the company's Krupp-built Bagger, monstrous earth removers that are two football fields long, four stories high, and can chew up 200,000 tons of earth in a day. The Hambach pit (named after a nearby village) will mean the loss of four communities with a total population of about 10,000. A number of villagers are vocal about the loss of their homes and what they consider inadequate compensation offers by Rheinbraun. Says Gerhard Heyden, a schoolteacher in the doomed town of Lichsteinstrass...
...other three agreed that the normalization of U.S. ties with Peking was a positive step. But the Germans had been surprised by the suddenness of Carter's move, and they were known to have feared originally that there might be a secret deal with Peking that could pit Washington against Moscow. Giscard stressed that the new U.S. policy on China must not interfere with negotiations with the Soviets. After the matter had been discussed, there was a consensus that the new China policy would not damage U.S. relations with the U.S.S.R. or draw the West into the Sino-Soviet...