Word: stalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Colorado Governor Richard Lamm protests that any crash development program "could do irreparable damage to our water supply, to our communities, to our environment." State officials, local representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Sierra Club and similar groups are allied to stop or at least to stall shale development. Water, a precious resource in the tri-state region, is one of their greatest concerns. Conservationists claim that shale extraction could use from one to five barrels of water for each barrel of oil, but company officials maintain much less would be required. Critics also argue that the underground marl...
There were quarterback sacks and fumbles on crucial plays, penalties to stall Harvard drives, and a big roughing the kicker penalty to pull the Tigers out of a hole at their own eight on a fourth and 15 to close the first quarter...
...apparently loaded up his arm on the sidelines and from the Harvard 36 he faked the halfback option and threw over the middle to Al Altieri curling out of the backfield at the 45. Altieri bulled his way into Princeton territory at the 44 where the drive began to stall...
...also played solid defensive soccer, tackling hard and using his strength to battle Tiger forwards for the ball. Several times Saturday his sliding tackles bought the rest of the Crimson backs time to get into position and stall Princeton attacks...
...remaining tenants in the building may press the Cambridge Rent Control Board to stall their evictions because Harvard has no permit, one tenant who wished to remain anonymous said. "Some people are upset enough by everything that's happened to stay and fight," tenant John Henze added...