Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hathaway's problem was that in his two terms as Wyoming's Governor, he too often neglected environmental problems. Instead he concentrated on boosting the state's economy and creating new jobs by developing its vast natural resources. He encouraged oil drillers, leased coal-mining rights to an additional 1.2 million acres of state-owned land and did his best to supply the new energy industries with scarce water supplies...
...kids frisking in back, the husband hunched over the wheel and the exhausted wife dozing fitfully in the front seat. They are the latest breed to head for Alaska with the burning desire to strike it rich. Their aim is to work on-or feed off-Alaska's vast oilfields and its great new pipeline. Many will never get jobs, but some who do will make $6,000 or more a month...
...Italy's heartiest political perennials and the country's most controversial politician. A four-time Premier, he has since 1973 been secretary of the Christian Democratic Party, which has ruled Italy for 30 years. For his pugnacious leadership and almost baronial control of the party's vast machinery and patronage, he has sometimes been called, both inside and outside the party, il Padrino-the Godfather-of Italian politics...
...French Connection. In fact, the unfinished business seemed just the point: that the French dope dealer so passionately pursued by the American cops could slip smoothly away through a massive stakeout and leave the country. The Frenchman was the source connection responsible for bringing in vast quantities of heroin from Marseille to New York. Frog One, Popeye Doyle called him, and the fact that he could get away nearly unruffled, meant simply that the law could never catch up with the main...
Such is the depth of despair today in Angola, where three black liberation movements are fighting over who will hold power after the vast West African territory becomes independent of Portugal on Nov. 11. In three weeks of violence, mainly in the capital city of Luanda, at least 500 people, mostly blacks, have been killed and thousands of others wounded. The casualties resulted from a murderous vendetta among the liberation groups that fought a 13-year guerrilla war against the Portuguese...