Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stitching was done at the new Yuba-Feather Health Center, three log cabins built as a staging site for fighting forest fires but recently transformed into a medical resource serving 8,000 people spread over 900 sq. mi. of mountain. It was paid for out of federal and private funds, which cover the salaries of two full-time physicians: Rose, 32, and his partner, Dr. William Hoffman, 34. Both the center and the young doctors who staff it are signs of a national effort to bring doctoring back to rural America...
...boycott of the Moscow Games was followed last week by a potentially even more humiliating suggestion from Vice President Walter Mondale. Said he: "It is my personal belief that the Olympics ought to be held somewhere else." Rosalynn Carter, campaigning in Iowa, also said the Olympic site should be changed, and at week's end the State Department said American participation in the Olympics was "an open question...
...earn abroad. Steep mining taxes in Minnesota, Montana and other states have also discouraged digging. Geologists have singled out 40,000 acres of federal land in Idaho as a possible source of cobalt. Yet last November the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee designated 2.2 million acres surrounding the site as a wilderness preserve, and banned any commercial activity that would disturb the elk, bighorn sheep and 188 other species that inhabit the area...
...promenade of an ocean liner, and in warm weather doors will be opened to an outdoor balcony. The architects, who designed the Ford Foundation building in Manhattan and the new wing of Deere & Co. headquarters in Moline, Ill., have always been masters of glass-enclosed interiors. The Bonfils site has shown them equally adept at providing dramatic vistas to the world outside...
Protesters, held off by Mace and tear gas-wielding policemen, tried unsuccessfully for three days in early October to break down the chain link fence surrounding the plant and occupy the reactor site...