Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yesterday local residents and ecology activists rebuilt a 50-ft. strip of stone wall that had been knocked down last week so that a construction but could be built. So far 1200 Allston residents have signed the petition to block construction of the boys' club, Green said...
...laws, regulating strip mining, for example, flagrantly favor the desecration of the land for, as Secretary Hickel declared. "the stimulation of individual incentive to seek out and develop valuable minerals which are essential to the continued growth and prosperity of this nation...
...long as land is judged by the profit it can provide a developer, ugly high-rises will continue to puncture the horizon, woods will be considered valuable logging areas, the hillsides will turn into strip mines. Yet the economic fabric in America is constructed so as to encourage shoddy ravaging of the human and natural resources for the profit which they might yield. Man and nature both have a higher potential than to be oppressed for quick dollars. The ecology campaign must strike right at the heart of the industrialized insensitive society, where it destroys natural beauty for a capitalist...
...along the Strip, a small army of investigators-the D.A.'s men, SEC investigators, IRS and FBI agents-are getting in one another's way searching for information on cases ranging from suspected murder to income tax evasion, blackmail, embezzlement and stock fraud. It is probably no coincidence that some hotel and casino officials have left town in a hurry. Pierre P. Mottoros, an analyst with Equity Research Associates, explains the entire situation with deliberate understatement: "I'm afraid that Las Vegas and casinos still have an image that deters conservative money...
Caught by surprise, Pompidou did not understand at all. He immediately petitioned the courts to force removal of the ad. The courts complied in time to strip the President's photo from the 150,000 copies of L'Express sold in the Paris area, but the order came too late to affect the 450,000 copies that had already been shipped outside the city; the ad stayed in them. Another magazine, Paris Match, which had also intended to carry the Mercury message, got the word from the court just before press time. Deleting the ad caused the magazine...