Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...land-based strategic arsenal: the possibility of a surprise Soviet attack obliterating nearly all of the 1,054 U.S. Minuteman and Titan iCBMs. Pentagon strategists have long believed that the best antidote to this vulnerability would be a mobile ICBM known as the MX. They had considered underground trenches, which proved vulnerable, and special planes, which proved very expensive...
...found, and in it she died. But her story is only just beginning. From that day to this, the Island has been haunted by her ghost, and if you don't believe me, just ask the caretakers, none of whom ever managed to explore all 17 miles of underground tunnels on the Island before being scared off by The Lady in Black. Kinder to tourists than custodians, the Lady graciously permits thousands of Bostonians to visit her home each year, aboard the less than regal vessels of the Mass Bay, Boston Harbor or Bay State cruise companies. Three dollars...
...problem, cited by Washington Correspondent George Taber, was that many news sources "suddenly went underground when their bosses' jobs went on the line." Taber resorted to an old journalistic gambit: calling high officials directly late at night. He found they "would usually talk−if only to tell you how little they knew...
Another possibility is unconventional gas, which is the same as natural gas, but much harder to extract. It is found under the surface-in the Rocky Mountain region, in the shales of Appalachia, in huge underground caverns stretching below land and sea along the coastlines of Louisiana and east Texas, and in many coal seams all over the country. Because it is costly, the development of unconventional gas had been blocked until natural gas price controls were lifted last year. Now Carter anticipates production to reach the equivalent of 500,000 to 1 million...
...tons of rock must be mined and heated. So far, the process requires huge amounts of water -scarce in the West-and leaves huge piles of ashlike rubble. To avoid mining and the problems it brings, Occidental Petroleum is testing a new method. Fires are started in underground mines to separate the oil into pools; then it is pumped to the surface. That technique is promising but far from perfected...