Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moved his family to a farm in central Pennsylvania. Then he began to do what he had always wanted-plant trees. Jones had a green thumb, his seedlings thrived, and word of his tree farm began to spread. Consequently, after Pennsylvania passed a law in 1948 requiring strip miners to refill and replant the land they had ravaged for coal, company officials came to him for help. "Won't be a damned thing grow," they said. "But go ahead and plant it. That's the law." Under Turk's care, things grew...
...says shrewd Barber Conable, an upstate New York Congressman: "He is a good politician. The realities of power are still against him, but he has immense personal good will up here. He knows the House." When Ford was given a list of wavering members on the strip-mining-veto vote, he glanced over the dozen names. "That one, that one and that one are a waste of time," he said almost instinctively. The three were scratched, and Ford began phoning the others in his successful effort to avoid an override...
...kind of grace note to this chaotic symphony, the House last week failed, by three votes, to override a presidential veto of a bill to regulate more strictly the strip mining of coal. As a result, somewhat more critically needed coal will be produced, but at the expense of the environment. The bill's environmental safeguards would not have compounded the energy problem if the nation had a coordinated energy policy. As it was, however, the vote merely highlighted the inability of the White House and Capitol Hill to come up with such a policy, or of the Democratic...
...running at 200 letters a week, many from prospective settlers who apparently see the province as a potential Elysium-on-Hutt. An air service flies in from Perth (370 miles south) twice weekly, first circling the capital as a signal to the prince to clear the grassy landing strip of grazing cattle...
...born in Brooklyn, you have to invent some kind of landscape for yourself." Her latest projects have moved into an area explored by only a few other American sculptors, like Richard Serra: neither earthwork nor freestanding construction, but midway between the two-steel plates embedded into planes and strips of earth. The first of these immense environmental pieces was her 280-ft. Land Canal and Hillside built in Dallas in 1971: a string of triangular steel forms down the dividing strip of a highway, rising and falling and tilting, meant to be seen as a changing sculpture from the windows...