Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coal would therefore have to be obtained by strip mining areas of Montana and the Federal National Grasslands in Wyoming--a relatively inexpensive but environmentally devastating procedure...
...strip-mining is prohibited, it is likely that Middle South, crying energy crisis, will obtain variances from clean air standards to burn lower grade coal...
Backing up Miss Beckson are the eight Hot Box Girls who handle their Busby Berkeley-ish routines with adequate precision. However, in "Take Back Your Mink," their strip-tease number which features skin-tone body stockings with strategically-placed, appliqued hearts, the Hot Box Girls appear more embarrassed than their audience...
...down to traditionally sumptuous meals of lamb, rice, mahshi and sharab (eggplant and yogurt), sticky sweets and fruits. The celebrations, dulled by the uncertainties in the Middle East, were unusually subdued among the 1,000,000 Arabs who live on the Israeli-occupied western bank and the Gaza Strip...
...night. There's a closed specificity of tone, and Lucas wants to put his teenagers in perspective: the world is going on elsewhere. Even though there were no adults in the picture, you knew they were out there, and that they were different from the kids on the strip. Charlie, Michael, Tony and Johnny Boy are not the only ones on the mean street: the older mafioso glide elegantly and watch TV; the bums have kindly, lost smiles; crowds throng around the neon crosses at the festivals. Bizarre or not, they've found quiet ways to cope...