Word: soils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostages are released, Richard Scammon believes, the stunning television spectacle of men and women kissing U.S. soil after a year of captivity would virtually assure the President's victory. Still, a thin hint that Khomeini was seeking leverage or the White House orchestrating such a drama could send Carter packing. What if there were Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz and Carter dispatched a huge allied armada to clear them out? The experts quibble-maybe yes for Carter-on-the-bridge, maybe...
...single, ordinary, yellow dwarf star surrounded by a system of nine planets, dozens of moons, thousands of asteroids and billions of comets?the family of our sun." He fantasizes about large, tenuous life forms in the stormy atmosphere of Jupiter and about small, microbial ones in the reddish volcanic soil of Mars. To the space traveler, the earth is the shore of a cosmic ocean: "Recently, we have waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting...
...their dominance of the National Executive Committee, stacking it 19 to 11 against Party Leader James Callaghan's moderates. The left-wingers later won a series of drastic new policy demands: withdrawal from the European Community, unilateral nuclear disarmament and a ban against U.S. cruise missiles on British soil. Although a proposal that Britain should quit NATO was rejected, the antinuclear pledges would effectively end active British participation in the Western military alliance...
...fast as the neighborhoods to the east, got its start in the 1830s when a cattle market settled there, soon spawning a stockyard, inns, taverns, and even a racetrack. Water shortages prevented much native industry from springing up, except for brickmaking concerns, which benefited from the clay in the soil...
...located 181,000 such "lagoons" at industrial and municipal waste agency sites around the country. In a study of 8,200 of them, the agency found other 72% were just holes in the ground, not lined with concrete or other materials to prevent the chemicals from leaching into the soil; 700 of these unlined lagoons were within a mile of wells tapping ground water...