Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GOOD TIME music. As Bobby Keyes, former Stones sideman and winner of the Al Hirt Fat Horn Player Award, once said, "Rock and roll is on the road again." And where else...
...jury found Kerr-McGee Corp. negligent in the handling of highly radioactive plutonium because it did not protect Silkwood, a lab technician, from contamination. The jury awarded her three children $10.5 million. She herself was killed mysteriously in 1974 when her car ran off a road as she was on her way to give evidence of the plant's carelessness to a New York Times reporter...
...three most prominent proposals are those of Kennedy; Louisiana Senator Russell Long, who advocates a far more restricted measure; and Carter, who takes a more modest, middle-of-the-road approach. The three...
Arguing that such environmental fears are exaggerated, pro-roaders see bonanzas at the ends of both highways. Despite the caution of Alaska state officials, the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce believes that the Haul Road could be bustling with so much traffic by 1985 that it will steer an extra $15 million a year into their city. The Dempster's boosters see one certain payoff. No longer will residents of Inuvik and the outlying Mackenzie Delta, where oil exploration is now being expanded, need to import most of their food, fuel, clothing, machinery and other supplies by expensive airfreight...
...Robertson, who predicts a flood of tourists. Says he plaintively: "We'll be the biggest used-car lot in the world. Every fool in an air-conditioned Cadillac will want to drive here, and one way will be enough. They won't go back over that road. They'll dump their cars here and fly home...