Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where does Gerald Ford stand on the environment [July 14]? He stands on a strip-mined ravaged mountain breathing dirty...
...took two wearying months for Wyoming's conservative-minded ex-Governor Stanley K. Hathaway, 51, to get through the grilling from U.S. Senators on his nomination to be Secretary of the Interior. They demanded to know his views on strip mining, oil shale and myriad other environmental issues. As he absorbed the punishment, Hathaway often drummed his fingers on the table...
...Democrats turned out to have too many members for their own good, and their leadership splintered. They failed to muster enough votes to override presidential vetoes of key spending bills providing for more federal housing subsidies, more public service jobs, higher farm price supports, and environmental controls on strip mining. With his 25 years' experience in the House...
...environment. With a B.S. in forestry from Utah State and a three-month stint behind him as a ranger in Yellowstone National Park, Jack speaks forcefully and knowledgeably on environmental issues. But he does so mostly in private with the President. Of Dad's veto of the strip-mining bill that would have placed tough restrictions on mining companies, Jack says only: "He took a little different approach to it than...
...blue sedan is parked on the inside shoulder of the eastbound lane of the Ohio turnpike. The driver makes lusty love to a red-shirted girl lying on a blanket on the median strip. Lush-Ohio grass, bent about a subtle flex of asphalt, spinning through the onrush of high-revving machines, hollowed to catch the sky's seed, pulls through their pressing embrace. Coupled in time and stasis, the lovers arch to the Indianapolis sounds of the cars, rising and fading in perpetually lost motions...