Word: scenically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casual eye, the tiny (50-sq.-mi.) Italian island of Pantelleria has little to recommend it. Halfway between Sicily and North Africa, it has no beaches, no good harbors, no scenic little coves and no vegetation to speak of. Its one town looks like a slum-clearance project, and its 8,240 people are among the poorest in Italy. Volcanic springs, more like oversized tea kettles than proper Ve-suviuses, gurgle and smolder in the interior and, from shore to barren shore, there is not a drop of water fit to drink. Water, like almost all the island...
...slope The party is over, the day of having it all is gone," he told Coloradans, pledging to conserve the state's energy resources and work against any damaging exploitation of Colorado's oil shale "We lave an energy-rich state, and yet we have this fantastic scenic treasure with resources of air, beauty and water that we have damaged already. We are entering a period of history when conspicuous consumption and waste just must end." Dominick's campaign was hampered by his arthritic back, his too-long loyalty to Nixon and his occasional malapropisms...
Ford's squad will have to continue its hustle this afternoon at 2:20 when the William's team journeys in from the scenic Berkshires for an important regional contest on the Business School Field...
With two impressive non-league wins already under their belts, the powerful Elis will be at home today in scenic New Haven to face a rugged Brown football team. The Bruins, 1-2 on the year, opened their Ivy slate last weekend with a tough 14-9 loss to Penn...
MARTHA'S VINEYARD is, above all, an island, and to the 8000 small-town folk who live there year round, it is The Island. Seven miles of open sea separate the scenic mass of rubble deposited by Ice Age glaciers from the mainland and its ravages--a distance too short to protect against commercialism, but long enough so that many might think the Island is miraculously immune. The Vineyard stands on its own, it seems, and the assured independence most Islanders assert was reflected in a famous headline a few years ago, when poor weather scuttled the regular ferry sailings...