Word: stripping
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Last year an estimated 3,000,000 acres of open land were gobbled up by urbanization, vacation developments, strip mining and highways. The total is equivalent to the land area of Connecticut. Next year another 3,000,000 acres will be built up, paved over or stripped. Most of the change is taking place on the relatively flat farm lands around the most populous cities, near shore lines, or in the most popular resort areas. In these locations particularly, the amount of land is limited -the all too many abuses of land are all too visible...
...addition, Farber said, the Center is completing a report on strip mining. Harvard students and other workers for Campaign Continental, an association formed by former Ralph Nader staffers and people from the Miners for Democracy caucus in the United Mine Workers, brought issues related to strip mining before the ACSR last Spring. The issue arose when shareholders in the Continental Oil Company asked for information on the surprisingly high accident rate in the company's Appalachian coal mines...
Graffiti's collection of cars makes the movie a must for any greaser or reformed greaser. The driving on the strip raises cruising to the level of ballet...
...steel-price requests will get much closer scrutiny. Steelmakers are asking for increases of around 5% on pipe, sheet and strip. Those raises were scheduled to go into effect two months ago but were held up by the latest price freeze. Steel executives argued at last week's hearings that the increases are needed to provide money to expand their plants. Some add privately that they can present cost data that would justify a lift of 6%. Their case was weakened by unrelated but embarrassingly timed indictments handed down by a federal grand jury, charging U.S. Steel, Bethlehem, Armco...
Many of the girls are well-known Sunset Strip characters with names like Sable Starr or Lori Lightning, and their accoutrements are kookier than their names: glitter makeup, an electric Afro pierced by a long-stemmed rose, extremely low-cut dungarees with two suspenders to cover the nipples. The gay and transvestite crowds attracted by performers like Alice Cooper and David Bowie have included one fan dressed as a ladybug and another as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. Indeed, so bizarre is the show on the sidewalk that it produces another kind of damage problem: distracted motorists...