Word: survey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still pursuing higher-court relief, 1,000 farmers flocked to the capitol in St. Paul last week to demand a moratorium on construction of the line. Others have taken more forceful action. When power-company survey crews invade their fields, farmers harass them with onrushing snowmobiles. They block construction machinery with pickup trucks and boulders. They shove welding rods into the radiators of the power companies' tractors, sprinkle sand and gravel into gas tanks. Four masked men on horseback menaced one work crew; up to 100 chanting protestors have played "ring-around-the-tripod" to heckle surveyors. Math Woida...
Because the Kremlin treats reserves as state secrets, it is not easy to project production figures. According to the latest estimates by the U.S. Geological Survey, Soviet proven and estimated onshore reserves stand at an impressive 80 billion bbl. The main problem is that the most promising reserves are located in barren, inhospitable areas where drilling is extremely difficult. In the western Siberian fields, tall drilling rigs perch precariously on unstable peat that freezes rock hard in winter and heaves and shifts in summer...
Experimental sections for this semester are open to freshmen enrolled in either English 12, "Shakespeare: A Survey of Plays," English...
...President with a heap of problems-and a rare opportunity. After a disappointing first year, his ability to inspire the nation was in doubt, and his popularity was continuing to slide in the polls. The ABC-Harris poll placed his approval at 41%; a CBS-New York Times survey gave him a 51% rating. Yet the annual rush of late-January presidential messages, from the State of the Union speech to his budget and economic reports, presented him with a new chance to lift and lead. By most measures, he got off to a good start, turning his State...
Personal incomes and corporate profits are both rising, while the dollar totters abroad and stock prices nosedive. One survey shows consumer confidence at a five-year high; another puts it at a two-year...