Word: slopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will periodically turn over the proceeds, which ultimately will amount to $313 million, to Atlantic Richfield Co. (Arco), the nation's ninth largest petroleum company. Arco will use the money to pay interest and other costs of borrowing funds to develop its big gas deposits on the North Slope of Alaska. In return for the advance of the money, SoCal Gas gets the exclusive right to negotiate for 60% of Arco's North Slope gas when it starts flowing in about 1980. SoCal Gas is assured of the supply only so long as it agrees to meet...
...early April when San Francisco Correspondent John Austin, swaddled in lay ers of arctic gear, stepped warily out of a warm airplane at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's oil-rich North Slope to begin reporting the story in the Nation section on the Alyeska pipeline project. Though the temperature was a nippy-50° F., old North Slope hands assured Austin he was enjoying unusually balmy spring weather. "Maybe so," he recalls, "but I didn't see any of them getting out the volleyball...
...every ton of strip-mined coal, and 15? for every deep-mined ton, into a new fund for reclamation of abandoned mines. The aim is to restore some 100 million acres of already stripped land, primarily in Appalachia where deep hillside gashes mark worked-out steep-slope mines...
...alarums of Gerald Ford on Indochina, but also to the first whispers of a tardy spring. It was clear that spring was more welcome. It will soon green the patch of Iowa prairie where they have lived and farmed for 64 years, bring the wild flowers to their slope of black soil with a quiet excitement that will dwarf Ford's perplexing insistence on more war in Southeast Asia...
Usually the 'Cliffe squad divides its offensive and defensive duties. Because of the slope of the IAB pool and the difference in the ability of the Radcliffe shooters, three of the strongest swimmers and shooters take on the offensive burden while the other three stay back to help sophomore goalie Laura Garwin keep down their opponents' score...