Word: blowout
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Hickel soon proved that he possessed the "extra dimension" that Nixon ascribed to all his department heads. Only days after he took office, an oil blowout began fouling the waters of the Santa Barbara Channel. Hickel refused to order the drilling stopped, then visited the scene and reversed his decision. Later he prompted costly lawsuits against the Chevron Oil Co. after oil fires along the Louisiana coast. Said Hickel: "I found the man who pulled the plug." At Hickel's instigation, the Justice Department also sued eight companies accused of contaminating navigable waters with mercury. Despite a parochial interest...
...thing was that a mere change in the weather-an unexpected late-September hot spell-could bring one of the world's largest electric systems so close to total blowout. Public utility companies, which have encouraged customers to buy more appliances to consume more power, now plead that they must build more power plants to meet the increased need. Conservationists stress that more power plants will increasingly foul the already poisonous air. Partly because of the bad city air, architects design buildings with windows permanently closed. Thus massive air-conditioning systems must dangerously draw ever heavier loads of power...
...Administration in 1968 invited oil companies to lease about 453,-600 acres of federal waters for offshore oil and gas drilling in California's Santa Barbara Channel. The oilmen paid $624 million for 70 leases. But just as the Nixon Administration took office in 1969, a massive underwater blowout began slopping 1,000 bbl. of oil a day over miles of Santa Barbara's white beaches, killing marine creatures and raising a huge public outcry...
...that tarred the Santa Barbara beaches last year is largely gone, but the memory still galls the residents. Last week they commemorated the first anniversary of the blowout with speeches and demonstrations attended by ecologists, conservationists and politicians like Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Jesse Unruh. Santa Barbara is convinced that another accident may be as close as the drilling platforms six miles offshore...
...some cases the Pill raises an unstable blood pressure so abruptly and severely as to cause a blowout in a brain artery-the hemorrhagic type of stroke. Another vascular disturbance is the migraine headache, which results from dilation of peripheral arteries in the head. Any woman who has ever had migraines is likely to find that they strike more often and more severely after she goes on the Pill. Others may suffer their first, alarming and hideously painful migraine when taking the Pill. Among other "contraindications," as doctors call them, are diabetes, liver disease, breast cancer and possibly rheumatoid arthritis...