Word: plain
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...Valdez spill in March 1989, the environment was the overwhelming favorite. But in the month since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, which has pushed oil prices from $17 a bbl. to more than $30, the political mood has changed rapidly. The prime focus of the debate is the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a pristine wilderness area that may hold the largest untapped oil deposit...
...million-acre refuge is home to several hundred Eskimos, grizzlies, musk-oxen, wolves, migratory birds and a herd of 180,000 caribou, whose majestic spring migration has inspired naturalists to call the preserve "America's Serengeti." But to oilmen and Alaska politicians, the refuge's 1.5 million- acre coastal plain is a potential lode of black gold...
Almost all elected officials in Alaska believe the U.S. should open the coastal plain for drilling, which could create thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in tax revenue. The Bush Administration, citing a study contending that the oil could be pumped without harming the environment, has proposed that the drilling ban be lifted. In addition, the Senate last month unanimously passed an amendment to the defense authorization bill that obliges the President to keep oil imports below 50% of domestic demand. If passed by a joint resolution of Congress, the amendment could open all federal lands outside national parks...
...anti-NEA debate was ignited in June 1989 by a photo exhibition that included homosexually explicit work by the late Robert Mapplethorpe. As is made plain by Indecent Materials, which last week transferred from Durham, N.C., to New York City's Public Theater, the flash point for Helms was gay rights. The opening play, drawn from Helms' words, quotes him assailing "homosexuals who are trying to force their way into undeserved respectability...
...years of pulling in clients almost effortlessly, clubs are facing new challenges. For one, the proliferation of health spas, which have doubled in number, to 20,000, since 1980, has created fierce competition. And as members grow older, they are becoming pickier, more prone to injury and, often, just plain bored...