Word: western
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...centralized energy grid is a plague to dairy farmers of west central Minnesota. As George Crocker of the General Assembly to Stop the Power Line (GASP) puts it, "Starting almost a decade ago, the industry started to get ideas about the western coal front. As soon as the plans materialized, the people started fighting a struggle, which has taken many forms for almost eight years...
...producers (many of the same corporations) began to realize that America's continued industrial development was going to run up against hard times in eastern labor-intensive underground coal mines--where almost 400 years' worth of coal remains. Instead, companies looked eagerly towards the "Great American Coal Basin"--the western United States. There the coal lies close to the surface and high production with minimal labor costs is the name of the game...
...issues that Vance alluded to was immigration. For decades, the U.S. has served, albeit unwillingly, as a safety valve for Mexico's employment problem. The country has one of the Western Hemisphere's higher birth rates. Even taking oil wealth into account, the expected population growth (from 68 million today to an estimated 132 million by the year 2000) threatens to wipe out rapid increases in the gross national product ($92 billion...
...World Series. Angel luck being what it is, Aikens later wrecked his knee, and is out for the year. The last straw was the injury to Pitcher Jim Barr (10-12), one of eight Angels who have signed contracts of over $1 million. After the team clinched the Western title last week, a young fan waved a placard at Barr, who swiped at it. Of course, he damaged the knuckles of his pitching hand, and will miss the playoffs...
...five times and jailed for a year. In 1931 she immigrated to the U.S., where she wrote, lectured and ran several chicken farms. In 1939 she founded the Tolstoy Foundation in Valley Cottage to aid and absorb refugees from Soviet bloc countries and, she said, "to interpret to the Western world the present-day tragedy of the Russian people...