Word: projected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phone company rewired Hurlbut telephones as part of a general renovation project before school began this fall...
...bane of Tennessee politicians and the butt of barroom jokes. For four years the lowly snail darter, a finger-size species of perch, blocked completion of the $116 million Tellico Dam project on the Little Tennessee River. Because the creature was found only in these waters, it was entitled to protection under the 1973 Endangered Species Act. But it also provided legal leverage for environmentalists who saw the dam as a pork barrel that would deluge 16,000 acres of fertile farm land and wipe out Indian historical sites...
...much of the snail darter population to the nearby Hiwassee River, says that while their future is not yet assured, the fish are doing well so far. But the dam itself may not have a happy ending. Though Mayor Charles Hall of Tellico Plains (pop. 1,000) predicts the project will create 10,000 jobs over the next two decades, a new report by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Department of the Interior concludes that the river and the farm land untouched would have brought even more jobs...
...study also finds that the dam's projected output of 23 megawatts of electricity will be offset by operational costs and rack up an annual $750,000 deficit. And the TVA, which lobbied vehemently for the dam throughout the 1960s and '70s, now admits that the project will not even provide the power for which it was built. But as bulldozers returned to the dam site for a last month of construction before the reservoir is filled, practicality seemed to have lost a last round to politics...
...group as being less tough than his advisers. I have no doubt that Agnew's intervention accelerated Nixon's ultimate decision to order an attack on all the sanctuaries and use American forces. Agnew was right; we should either neutralize all of the sanctuaries or abandon the project. We were in danger of combining the disadvantages of every course of action. We would be castigated for intervention in Cambodia without accomplishing any strategic purpose...