Word: upping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, most try to get back on the track. Two and a half years after her crash, Sandy Purl has gone back to work as a flight attendant with Republic Airlines. "Maybe it won't work and I'll wind up working at McDonald's," she says...
The dirt road running up Parachute Creek in western Colorado winds through an ever steeper canyon. As the road climbs, it deteriorates into first a stream bed and then a cliff-hugging path that passes a blackened ledge of shale rock that was struck by lightning two years ago and...
For years shale oil remained undeveloped because conventional petroleum always hovered about $2 below the projected price of shale. Capital development costs have inflated almost as fast as OPEC prices. In the 1960s, when crude was selling for $2 a bbl., estimates were that oil from rock could be produced...
The trio of quakes has another distinction. Most major quakes occur around the boundaries of the great moving plates that form the earth's outer layers. One such region lies along California's quake-prone San Andreas fault, where the North American plate and the adjacent Pacific plate...
The discovery of these faults is of far-reaching significance. For the first time, scientists are linking earthquakes in the New Madrid region to specific features in the earth's crust. That means they should be able to measure these movements and perhaps ultimately even forecast future large quakes...