Word: provenance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inefficient and wasteful. The best possible solutions to the garbage problem are recycling and reduced consumption. In the near future we will witness a growing opposition from recycling organizations to the "burn anything" theory that only benefits large equipment manufacturers and creates few new jobs. Recycling is a proven technology and besides, it doesn't need a guaranteed supply of fresh garbage that the $50 million conversion plants require...
Because the Kremlin treats reserves as state secrets, it is not easy to project production figures. According to the latest estimates by the U.S. Geological Survey, Soviet proven and estimated onshore reserves stand at an impressive 80 billion bbl. The main problem is that the most promising reserves are located in barren, inhospitable areas where drilling is extremely difficult. In the western Siberian fields, tall drilling rigs perch precariously on unstable peat that freezes rock hard in winter and heaves and shifts in summer...
...seems that the modern sports fan has to be equally proficient at reading the fine print of legal contracts and boxscores. Everyone is aware that those records contained in the dog-eared pages of newspaper boxscores are made to be broken. Events of the last week, however, have proven that, as far as sports go, the letter of the law is not made to be broken--only evaded...
...direction will help the artist meet the unfamiliar demands of acting. Nicholas Roeg largely succeeded with this approach when he gambled on Mick Jagger as an aging rocker in the starring role of Performance, but other directors have usually obtained mixed results. Alternatively, the filmmaker can settle for the proven talents of a veteran actor, fudging on authenticity for the sake of a solid acting...
More immediate is the promise of oil. Though its proven reserves primarily in western Sinai and offshore in the Gulf of Suez total only 3 billion bbl. (v. 110 billion bbl. for Saudi Arabia), Egypt already produces enough oil to fill its own needs and provide a sizable surplus. This year, the country is again an oil exporter, to the happy tune of $311 million. Sadat predicts that the figure will jump to $1.5 billion by 1980. In addition, Egypt has largely untapped deposits of phosphates and iron...