Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coal will be one of the saving alternatives to oil as an energy source, and the easiest way to meet the nation's rising coal needs is to strip-mine. But strip mining - ripping off a top layer of earth to get at the coal underground - has done so much damage in the past that it is a prime target for environmentalists...
...comes from surface mines, and energy companies have taken leases on large chunks of the huge unexploited coal reserves of the West, where low-sulfur coal lies close to the surface. But with 1,000 chewed-up acres being added each week to the existing 2.5 million acres of strip-mined land, Congress is finally acting to make sure that coal producers do not create another ravaged Appalachia...
...behavior. Scientists who have gone to nudist colonies have repeatedly observed that when people take off their clothes, they are less sexual." In Brooklyn, N.Y., Federal Magistrate Vincent Catoggio had another opinion. "I don't know where these people get the idea they have a constitutional right to strip naked and parade in front of other people," he said, then set bail on a man who had been seized in the nude at Jacob Riis Park beach in Queens...
...state house of delegates, in 1968 was elected West Virginia's secretary of state. Handsome, rich, well educated (Exeter, Harvard, Yale) and well wed (his father-in-law is G.O.P. Senator Charles Percy), Rockefeller lost his bid for governorship in 1972 at least partly because he opposed strip mining. Now president of West Virginia Wesleyan College (enrollment: 1,525), he plans to try again...
...youngest district attorney at 25 and the youngest attorney general in the state's history at 29. A bachelor given to loud clothes and fast cars, he is an energetic crusader who, in his self-styled role as "the people's attorney," has tilted with strip-miners, polluters, and, in an effort to lower prices, the Alabama dairy commission. The only thing between Baxley, a native of Dothan, and the governorship is George Wallace. That is quite an obstacle, but then Baxley figures to be around for a long time...