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That is hardly likely. The project faces stiff competition from a shorter, all-U.S. pipeline that will be officially proposed this summer by El Paso Natural Gas Corp. Beyond that, the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, as last week's proposal is sometimes called, involves complex and perhaps insoluble problems. Unlike the controversy over the Alaska oil pipeline, the battle for Arctic natural gas will be fought mostly over economic and political considerations, not environmental dangers...
Within a short time, the princess was carrying on in stiff-upper-lip fashion, issuing a statement in which she expressed concern for those hurt in the incident: McConnell, 46; the driver, Alec Callender, 55; the bodyguard, James Beaton, 30; and the policeman, Michael Hills, 22. All were later reported in satisfactory condition...
SOME PEOPLE HAVE lofty positions handed to them as part of their birthright. Others have to push aside barriers to be successful, keeping stiff upper lips through discouraging moments and elbowing their way through the tiniest openings. Unfortunately both of these types usually reach their promised lands at the expense of their humanity...
...black, and was born in Wabash, Ark., in the midst of the Depression and Jim Crow. His father, a sharecropper, died when David was 10 years old. His mother, a domestic, died when he was 16. Evans is successful because he has pushed, elbowed, and kept a stiff upper lip--but he has retained his humanity. Against all dictates of probability, he has been concerned enough to turn around and help others to push aside their own barricades...
...first half, Hoge scored six of his points and Waciume looped the first of his kicks over the goalposts despite a stiff wind...