Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From dawn to dusk, the new hand labored in the parched and infertile fields of Dodoma, the most impoverished province of African Tanzania. Uncomplaining, he hacked at the dry soil with a primitive hoe, guided a plough drawn by oxen, picked ears of maize, ate the local diet and slept in a native hut. Julius Nyerere, 48, Tanzania's President, was making an earnest attempt to measure at first hand the depths of his country's need, and to promote Ujaama (community villages), the self-help principle through which he hopes to assist Tanzania in alleviating its poverty...
...more and more of the earth's bounty, troubling questions arise. Is it worth cutting the hardwood reserves of the Amazon River basin if the price is the destruction of the thin jungle soil? Should the oil under the North Sea be drilled at the risk of gravely endangering the beaches and wildlife of six nations? Can civilization's need for fuel and other materials be satisfied without despoiling the few wild areas left on earth...
...biggest TAPS problem would come from burying the pipeline in permafrost; no one really knows how the soil would behave. Oil would enter the pipe at a geothermal temperature of more than 100°; pumping and friction would boost that to 180°. As a result, critics charge, the hot oil might create a "thaw bulb" in the permafrost as deep as 50 ft. If the pipe broke, either by sagging into the mush or by being jolted by an earthquake, the aftermath would make the Santa Barbara spill look like a picnic. Critics also fear breaks at the pipe's lowest...
Political Persuader. The grand jury's action was as unusual as the case itself. Frenkil filed requests for additional fees from the Government, contending that the soil conditions encountered during construction were different from those described in the bid specifications prepared by the Architect of the Capitol and made construction more difficult than anticipated. When the office of the AOC began rejecting his claims, he took his case to Congress...
...invasion precipitate permanent warfare on Cambodian soil? North Vietnamese and Viet Cong plans in Cambodia, beyond their aim of regaining use of the sanctuaries, are still far from clear. The U.S. raids obviously weakened the 40,000 Communist troops in Cambodia, but not enough to keep them from placing the Lon Nol government "in a very difficult position," as the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Phnom-Penh, Lloyd M. Rives, puts it mildly. The Communist rampages through Cambodia's towns that began before the U.S. moved against the sanctuaries constituted open aggression against a neutral state. Unfortunately...