Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Atomic Energy Commission's study on reactor safety seriously underestimates the hazards of nuclear reactor accidents, the Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists and the Sierra Club said in a joint report presented to the AEC on Friday...
David R. Inglis, a University of Massachusetts-Amherst professor of physics who worked on the Union-Sierra Club report, said yesterday the reports' conclusions differ because the AEC report was written by people "whose bread and butter comes from the nuclear enterprise...
...California environmentalist groups lost a bitter fight to stop construction of a dam on the Stanislaus River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The 62-story-high structure was designed to prevent yearly flooding of the lower Stanislaus. Backers of the project cite other benefits like some 2.4 million acre-feet of irrigation water and enough nonpolluting hydroelectric power to supply a city of 200,000 people. The problem is that the dam will also destroy some nine miles of spectacular white water. An organization called Friends of the River, which was formed to fight the dam, persuasively argued that flood...
...these problems soon had a major effect on the DiGiorgio ranches, which began suffering losses. Consequently, the company began cutting back on planting, investment and production. By 1968, employment on one of its largest ranches had fallen from 2500 to 400. By 1970, the company had shut down its Sierra Vista ranch in Delano, costing the town 1500 jobs. Later the company shut down other ranches in the San Joaquin Valley...
...churches topped with neon crosses--captivates her. She craves people and chases experience, repelled by the "crustacean" life of gradual withdrawal from the world as passing years reveal its threatening aspects. Her unembarrassed receptivity to the emotional and physical aspects of human beings is evoked in an impression of Sierra Madre...