Word: tundras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, got a good deal of mileage out of their eight hits. The Crimson struck in the middle innings, getting three runs in the third, three in the fourth, one in the fifth, on a booming homer that DH Don Driscoll balsted out into the vast MIT tundra and finally two more in the sixth...
Television's second season is that midwinter's madness time when network leaders turn upon their pack of shows. They mercilessly thin out the old, the weak and the lame, while encouraging the newborn to join their endless trek across the TV tundra. This year the second season has produced three newcomers that seem certain to survive into the 1974-75 season. They...
...Crimson managed only four hits the entire afternoon and only two off Northeastern starter Ed Minishak. One of those was a booming shot from the bat of Leigh Hogan in the sixth that sliced through the gale winds and carried over the right field fence out onto the tundra somewhere for Harvard's first...
...with the new environment of shortage. The company's size and diversity limit its vulnerability. In 1973 Exxon rolled up worldwide sales of $28.5 billion -about the same as the NATO defense budget. Rigs working for Exxon or companies that it partly owns bring up oil from the Arctic tundra, the Arabian deserts, the Gulf of Mexico and Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. Gasoline, jet fuel and heating oil are distilled from the crude at refineries in Benicia, Calif., Rotterdam, Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia, and Singapore. Pumps blazoning the names Exxon or Esso (still widely used outside the U.S.) dispense...
...Senate and House whizzed through a long-delayed bill, which the President signed, to lay a pipeline across 789 miles of tundra, mountains and rivers between Alaska's North Slope oilfields and the warm-water port of Valdez. The pipe will pump some 2,000,000 bbl. per day-about 11 % of the nation's current needs. Though the line will be constructed on a hurry-up basis at a cost of $4.5 billion, it will still not be in operation until 1977, if then. In taking the action, Congress brushed aside longstanding objections by environmentalists, who argue...