Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clearly was in trouble. By a vote of 268 to 157, the House had just approved a proposal that the industry thought it could defeat: legislation that would set aside 126 million acres of Alaska's most spectacular wilderness. The bill would place stringent limits on how the land could be developed by oil companies looking for new sources of petroleum, as well as by lumber and mining interests. The most sweeping land conservation legislation in U.S. history, the bill would preserve an area slightly larger than California. It would also protect the great caribou herds in the Arctic...
...Washington and those who hope to become official Washington last week be gan disclosing their personal finances. Thousands more who will be required to report (nearly 11,000 earn more than the $44,756 that makes them eligible) took advantage of extensions granted by the Office of Government Ethics, set up to handle the disclosures. Among that group: President Carter and Vice President Mondale...
...small hospital in Riohacha, Colombia. He explained to authorities that he and McLemore had been flying down to Venezuela to pick up oil-drilling bits. But they had had engine trouble near the Colombian coast and were forced to land on a makeshift runway. Then, claimed Spradley, he was set upon by Indians wearing loincloths. They shot him, robbed him and left him by the plane...
Spradley's Houston colleagues rallied to his side and a defense fund was set up. Mayor Jim McConn joined the campaign, hoping to recoup some prestige in the wake of a scandal involving a gambling debt and the indictment of a top fund raiser and aide for extorting kickbacks. In full uniform, Everitt flew to the rescue with Fire Chief V.E. Rogers...
Taylor, a miler and two miler from San Mateo, Calif., set a record for Harvard women in the 3000 meters this season and was part of the relay team which broke the Harvard mark in the the two mile relay. Harper is a hurdler and long jumper from Worcester, whom coach Pappy Hunt called a "top scorer this season...