Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plant stop violating the Federal Water Quality Act of 1965. The action, brought at the request of the Environmental Protection Agency's William Ruckelshaus, is considered a major test of the Nixon Administration's willingness to combat wealthy and influential polluters. Says Ruckelshaus: "Lake Superior is a priceless natural resource, and we are committed to save...
...Elysée Palace, newsmen fairly gaped in astonishment. In one stroke, the salons where President Georges Pompidou does much of his entertaining had been transformed from pre-Bastille to post-Kubrick. Gone from the palace (built in 1718) were the murky frescoes, the gilt-edged mirrors, the priceless Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture. The anteroom where guests are greeted is now a blast of color and light, designed by Israeli Op Artist Yaacov Agam and dominated by his wall-size "kinetic" murals...
Does he keep a diary? "I should keep one. It would be priceless. Not in terms of money, but the impressions that will be lost. Now and then I do put something on the Dictaphone and give it to Rose Woods and tell her not to type it up but save it. At night, I usually wake up between 12 and 2 when my mind is clear and make some notes. I never get out of bed, though, because then I would wake up fully. The next morning I look at the notes in the light of day." Near...
Angel Island, a wildlife preserve in the middle of San Francisco Bay, could be a priceless military museum as well. Instead, it is a monumental eyesore. An abandoned Nike site sits in a tangle of weeds. The remnants of a Japanese internment camp, a crumbling Civil War hospital and dilapidated WAC barracks are nearby. Shortly before the island was turned over to the California department of parks and recreation in 1963, says a parks official, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of pointless damage was done by the military itself. Fine old marble fireplaces in the turn-of-the-century...
...every state can have a Cumberland, but many would like to try. And the Federal Government is now lending a helping hand. With the Congress, the Administration is trying to strike a balance between preserving U.S. shoreline areas as priceless natural resources and allowing carefully regulated maritime and industrial development. Some wetlands experts have suggested "single use" laws for coastal areas: industry in a given state would be concentrated in one shore area, people in another and wildlife in yet another...