Word: slopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After weighing the needs of ecology and economy, the Interior Department last week issued a long-awaited report approving the proposed 800-mile oil pipeline running from Alaska's North Slope (estimated reserves: up to 10 billion bbl.) to Valdez on the state's southern coast. Compiled by Interior geologists, ecologists and engineers, the report called the oil "essential" to U.S. security, especially in light of the Middle East's political instability, and concluded that stiff regulations on the pipeline can "reduce foreseeable environmental costs to acceptable levels...
...unexpected hero of episodes Jike the battle to halt a jetport that endangered Florida's Everglades National Park. Though a former Governor of Alaska and thought to be friendly to the oil interests, Hickel delayed construction of the ecologically questionable 773-mile oil pipeline from the state's North Slope to a southern port. He cracked down on oil drillers fouling the Gulf of Mexico, and even put eight kinds of whales on the official Endangered Species list before he got on it himself...
...laughed. "I really enjoy the winters-we have a sled run that goes from up there" [he pointed up the slope] "down to the gate. I really banged myself up one time last year, riding my son down on a sled. It's great...
...fires along the Louisiana coast. Said Hickel: "I found the man who pulled the plug." At Hickel's instigation, the Justice Department also sued eight companies accused of contaminating navigable waters with mercury. Despite a parochial interest in seeing a trans-Alaska pipeline laid to the North Slope, Hickel delayed the project for nearly a year, demanding that oil companies devise a pipeline system that would do minimum damage to the fragile Alaskan tundra...
Swathed in sober respectability, Actor Richard Burton celebrated his 45th birthday with presents from Queen Elizabeth (the order of Commander of the British Empire) and Wife Elizabeth (a Rolls-Royce saloon). He also ruminated on retirement: "When I really want to slope off and simply be garrulous in my old age, I shall go back to the South Wales village I came fromPontrhydyfen. Elizabeth will still be superbly dressed, but the double chin she has had from childhood will become a third chin, and she'll be asking me to get her a vodka and tomato juice...