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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underpasses and pathways over buried pipe are provided for migrating Alaskan wildlife. Some sectors of the pipe are flexible enough to withstand earthquakes that register 8.5 on the Richter scale-greater than the devastating 1964 Alaska quake that destroyed 30 blocks of downtown Anchorage. The entire system can be shut down in ten minutes if the pipeline breaks. A maximum of 50,000 bbl. can spill; valves at various intervals can be turned to stop the flow...
...rate has doubled, to 15.4%. Gone are the weekly wages of $1,000 and more. The high pay kept labor strife down but drove pipeline costs up. As Assistant Secretary Martin acknowledges, "The pipeline traded money for time." Some $250 million worth of campsites along the route have been shut down and put up for sale. Only about 1,000 people will continue to manage the line and the drilling equipment at Prudhoe...
...many a broad gesture. He provides energy in what would otherwise be purely expository scenes, but he is rather hard on any scenery or actors who happen to get in his way. Over a long haul, he is also wearying - like a drunk at a party who refuses to shut...
...yesterday a Paul Blair single in the bottom of the ninth pushed across the decisive run to give the Yankees a 5-4 win, a sweep of the three-game series with Boston, and a warning that Thurman Munson and Co. have it in them to shut off the Back Bay Power Plant when the situation calls...
This week we also take an unprecedented look at a normally hidden world-the Central Intelligence Agency, which until recently kept its doors tightly shut to journalists and news photographers. It tried to be almost as invisible in Washington as overseas. Says Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who reported part of our story and who has also worked in Eastern Europe and Moscow: "Even inside the embassies, it was taboo to mention...