Word: western
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...probably are the most blessed of all the Western nations, but [we are] in effect two nations: the producing nation-ours is ahiong the largest on earth -and the largest consumer nation on earth. And in the past, as you know, the producers have controlled our political system. In the past two years, there has been a growing division in our society about oil because the consumer voice has become stronger and stronger, and now they're about equal, I think...
...Western Australia's Nullarbor (meaning no trees) Plain is an arid, limestone plateau that lies east of the old gold-rush towns of Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie, southeast of Comet Vale and northeast of Grass Patch. It is a barren, almost unpopulated land of sand and saltbush. Out of the blackness of the southwestern sky one night last week, the fringe of this isolated region was visited by a fiery symbol of the Western world's most advanced technology: the final, fatal fall of Skylab...
Right in its path was Rancher John Seller, who was asleep in his house at Noondoonia Station, a 50-sq.-mi. sheep spread 480 miles east of Perth, Western Australia's capital city. Just 35 minutes after midnight, he and his wife, Elizabeth, were shaken awake by a loud noise. They ran outside. Said Seiler: "It was an incredible sight-hundreds of shining lights dropping all around the homestead. They were white, but as they began dropping, the pieces turned dull red. All the time there was a tremendous sonic boom...
...sense, Skylab's harmless return to earth in Western Australia seemed fitting. When Astronaut John Glenn in 1962 became the first American to orbit the globe, the city of Perth had spectacularly sent him its best wishes by turning on most of its lights as he passed overhead...
...lifted a glass of champagne last February and lectured Jimmy Carter on his country's right to be respected. Carter took heed, because the Mexican President's bold assertion of national pride and independence was backed up by what may be the richest energy supply in the Western Hemisphere. With proven reserves of 40 billion bbl. and estimated potential reserves of as high as 200 billion bbl., Mexico is now moving into the top rank of the world's oil producers...