Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Hospital, where he was recuperating from his gall bladder surgery and undergoing a series of radiation treatments for lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph glands, from which he has been suffering for six years. For these treatments, he was taken at least three times through a heavily guarded underground passage to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Some doctors said privately that the Shah could safely be moved within a few days, and that the treatment he needs could be administered in many places?in Mexico, Egypt or France, where he has been treated for his lymphoma in the past...
...uniformed security policemen swooped down on the crowd of several hundred people gathered at the wall. Scuffling with foreign observers at the scene the police confiscated about 500 copies of the trial transcript and arrested three would-be buyers and a man who was helping sell copies of the underground journal called April Fifth Forum that had published the transcript. When a Forum editor, Liu Qing, went to the police station to inquire after the imprisoned men, he too was arrested...
...development. Water, a precious resource in the tri-state region, is one of their greatest concerns. Conservationists claim that shale extraction could use from one to five barrels of water for each barrel of oil, but company officials maintain much less would be required. Critics also argue that the underground marl-cooking process could release salts, and perhaps even arsenic, into the region's ground water. Shale opponents protest finally that the surface-retorting process leaves piles of rubble and dust behind that would ruin the pristine Rocky Mountain valleys. A 400,000-bbl.-a-day industry would require...
They claim that their water requirements would be reasonable. Company officials also say that the underground cooking process seals the chambers, actually fuses the rock, and prevents salts from leaching into ground water. Firms plan to contour the piles of leftover shale rubble and to plant them with local wild flowers and grasses; tests have shown good results...
...fault zone apparently also lies within an even larger geological structure discovered previously during magnetic and gravitational surveys: a great underground rift in the earth's crust marked by the subsidence of rock over an area at least 190 km (120 miles) long and 50 km (30 miles) wide. Scientists believe this rift was created several hundred million years ago, when the North American plate began to split and molten rock from the interior welled toward the surface. Though the breakup halted-for reasons as inexplicable as the original movement-a weak area remains in the form...