Word: shores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...denigrating minimalism, Composer Elliott Carter comments: "One also hears constant repetition in the speeches of Hitler and in advertising. It has its dangerous aspects." One also hears constant repetition in the song patterns of birds and in the sound of the tide breaking on the shore...
...partly to shore up a slumping level of confidence that Britain suggested to China earlier this year that it was time to discuss the colony's future. When the Prime Minister arrived in Peking, she ran into a diplomatic impasse. China's leaders insist that they do not recognize any of the earlier treaties and demand full sovereignty over the entire colony. The British, fresh from a victorious war of sovereignty in the South Atlantic, have adopted an equally hard stand. As Thatcher said in Peking: "We stick by our treaties, unless we agree on something else...
...installed a fortnight ago. Placed over an area with a large concentration of leeps, they will sit on the sea floor like upside-down funnels, collecting gas and oil. The natural gas is siphoned off through a 6-in.-wide pipe that runs along the ocean bottom to shore. The oil will be stored in tanks within the pyramids and periodically emptied by ships. The project is expected to yield 50 bbl. of oil and 600,000 cu. ft. of gas a day, which will not be enough to offset the $8 million investment made by ARCO and its partners...
Although NCPAC preferred to see things in narrow ideological terms, styling Sarbanes as too liberal for Maryland, the odds have always been in Sarbanes favor. He has strong roots in key areas of the state like Baltimore and the Eastern Shore, and Maryland's voters--who supported Carter over Reagan in 1980--traditionally support Democrats...
...threat of a crisis, Americans will still drive their cars and companies will still produce such energy intensive products as steel. In sum, we still need oil and, more generally, abundant energy. The Mideast is risky, as are Mexico, Venezuela, and Nigeria in the long-term. And domestic off-shore drilling threatens not to live up to its promise. So, do we need a crash program to develop synthetic fuels? Coal is plentiful, but is it clean enough to be the electricity of the future? Are nuclear power, fusion and fission going to have a role in the next...