Word: soils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Power Commission Head Lee White and Ralph Nader, charge that the oil industry has had an incentive to drag its feet in order to reduce the supply and force prices still higher. The evidence scarcely supports that accusation: petroleum producers lately have been sinking more holes into American soil than at any time since the mid-1960s. Trouble is, the new wells are not turning up much...
...hope that the Turks "will not take any precipitous action." That hope was too late. The Turkish government issued a declaration saying that Ankara's bilateral defense treaties with the U.S. were "no longer valid." Later all but one of the two dozen U.S. military centers on Turkish soil were placed under Turkish control. The only exception was the nuclear-equipped strategic airbase at Incirlik, which the Turks will continue to allow U.S. personnel to run provided its future functions are confined strictly to NATO duties. The suddenness of the Turkish action prompted Ford to issue a statement that...
...chairman of the geography department of the University of California at Berkeley from 1923-54, Sauer impressed on his students the need to find "humane ways" to use earth's resources. Sauer was equally comfortable discussing ancient literature, leading expeditions to Baja California, or interviewing small farmers about soil erosion. His best-known books, Northern Mists and The Early Spanish Main, contended that Irish monks reached North America before Leif Ericson, and that Christopher Columbus had been an unstable governor of the West Indies, setting policies that nearly exterminated the region's Indians...
...same white, suburban liberal mold. This background is important to Agee not only because he wants to tell us what he did as a CIA agent in Latin America; he also wants us to understand why he did it and to agree with him that trees grown on American soil must produce rotten fruit...
...What language would Leonov and Stafford use for the greeting that would be heard round the world? Moscow and Wasinngton solemnly agreed that Stafford would use ins nasal Russian, Leonov ins casual English. Where would the instoric rendezvous occur? The Russians insisted that the linkup should be over Soviet soil, arguing that their ground controllers need "real time" communications with Soyuz during the critical approach and docking maneuvers and could not depend on delayed information relayed via satellites and tracking stations. Citing similar considerations...