Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pipeline applications, and Ottawa set up three special committees. The hearings were exhaustive, especially those conducted by Canadian Justice Thomas R. Berger, who was commissioned to examine the pipeline's ecological and social impact. After interviewing 300 environmental and economic experts and 1,000 natives in the region, Berger ruled last May that the consortium's line was unacceptable because it would endanger the habitat of many species of wildlife. Canada's Natural Energy Board backed Berger, thus killing the Arctic project...
...YORK--And so on a sultry afternoon in that region of upper Manhattan affectionatcly referred to as Devil's Elbow, they kicked off the 1977 Ivy football season with a big loud slurp...
...Prince Saud, who was the chairman of the meeting, declared that the Arabs would adopt "a plan of action" against the Israelis' move to create new settlements on the occupied West Bank and Gaza which he characterized as "criminal measures and a flagrant challenge endangering peace in the region." The meeting was expected to communicate to Carter the Arab message-no Palestinians, no settlement...
...mill, 90 miles south of Downieville, James Marshall set off the great gold rush of 1849 by discovering a shiny gilt object smaller than a pea. While the Mother Lode has yielded a billion dollars' worth of gold since then, geologists estimate that the vast majority of the region's treasure is still waiting to be found...
...only half a century, an estimated 251,000 sq. mi. (650,000 sq. km.) of farming and grazing land has been swallowed up by the Sahara along that great desert's southern fringe. In one part of India's Rajasthan region, often called the dustiest place in the world, sand cover has increased by about 8% in only 18 years. In the U.S., so much once fertile farm land has been abandoned for lack of water along Interstate 10 between Tucson and Phoenix that dust storms now often sweep the highway...