Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April of 1977, I was forced by persistent ill-health to return to my native country, Sierra Leone, for "native treatment." This may sound ridiculous to the reader, why I had to leave the United States where I could have received good medical treatment. Not that I found the American medical treatment less helpful, but I preferred "native treatment" because I felt it would be more efficacious to my health. Thus I have the conviction that the African people will never find a cure to the disease that is plaguing their continent until they become their own physician...
...cutting back in Youngstown while expanding elsewhere. The mills lining the Mahoning River are so old that some steelmen describe them as antiques. Bringing them up to modern standards would be an expensive job, and it cannot be put off. A few days before the Sheet & Tube decision, the Sierra Club won a federal court ruling ending the exemption that eight Mahoning valley steel plants had won from meeting federal clean-water standards...
...rush is on in a thousand old mining locations across the country, including parts of New York, Pennsylvania and Georgia. The richest-and most crowded-site is the Mother Lode, a network of streams cutting through the High Sierra in Northern California. There at General John Suiter's mill, 90 miles south of Downieville, James Marshall set off the great gold rush of 1849 by discovering a shiny gilt object smaller than a pea. While the Mother Lode has yielded a billion dollars' worth of gold since then, geologists estimate that the vast majority of the region...
...week's end the debate's outcome was still, so to speak, up in the air. What the lawmakers decide could, as the Sierra Club puts it, "strongly influence virtually every major environmental struggle in the next five years...
...slowly that a tractor's tracks are visible years after they are made; many of Alaska's animals require substantial sections of terrain for forage. "While 114 million acres may sound like a lot, there's an awful lot to preserve up there," says the Sierra Club's Charles Clusen. "It takes 100 square miles to support a single arctic brown bear...