Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their own ideological unity and underestimated Ford's clout, particularly in the House, where he served for 25 years, eight as minority leader. In what amounted to a counterattack, he vetoed key Democratic bills that would have raised farm price supports to boost food production, stiffened regulation of strip mining, stimulated the housing industry through subsidies of mortgage interest and would have appropriated $5.3 billion to ease unemployment by creating 1 million public jobs. Each time Ford and his aides mustered enough votes among Republicans and fiscally conservative Southern Democrats to sustain the vetoes in the House...
...hand, Ford continued, efforts to protect the environment might have to be eased in order to increase the nation's supply of energy and improve the economy-the same philosophy that the President expressed in May when he vetoed a bill to control the ecological damage done by strip mining for coal. The result would be a slowdown, but not a reversal, of the U.S.'s environmental programs. Pointing to progress in cleaning up the Connecticut and Hudson rivers, Ford quipped: "The salmon are back. They cough a lot, but they have reappeared...
From a purely rational point of view he would be right. A machine that records the shape and transparency of your fingers on a strip of magnetic tape--no central files are kept, so the authorities don't know anything about your hand--is no more invidious than the cameras they use for bursar cards now. People who don't balk at showing an ID card every time they want to get into the dining room or the library stacks should have no qualms about hand prints. It's the same principle. The new system is only...
...small, private twin-engine Beechcraft Baron, more susceptible to wind conditions than the big airliners, landed on the same strip without difficulty...
...consultant to the Central Pennsylvania Open Pit Mining Association, Jones, now 70, has directed teams that have successfully planted 36 million trees on strip-mined land in 17 counties. His accomplishments have won over some formerly implacable foes of surface mining who now agree with Jones that the technique has its place-as long as the spoil banks turn green again. "Coal for today, timber for tomorrow," Jones says cheerfully...