Word: stripping
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This time the disputed word was "inhabitants." The Egyptians wanted it omitted from a joint letter on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, to make it clear that autonomy for the two regions applied to the land and not just to its Palestinian inhabitants. The Israelis, who claim a biblical right to settle in what they call Judea and Samaria (ancient names for the West Bank), maintained that autonomy applies to the people, but not to the land they live on. Eventually the matter was settled by the drafting of one more supplementary letter, and the ceremony was allowed...
Growth might well speed up even further if Washington would strip away its remaining regulations. Cable TV still faces bewilderingly complex rules on the duration of its franchises, how rapidly a company must wire an area after it has swung a franchise, and other matters...
Anaconda made the first discovery of uranium in the U.S. at Laguna Pueblo, N.M., in 1951. Within 20 years, Anaconda's mine has become the largest uranium strip mine in the world, over five miles long and without any prospect for restoring the land to its original condition...
...Carter has reaffirmed his commitment to nuclear energy. With over 55 per cent of domestic uranium reserves and over one-third of all western low-sulphur coal located on Indian reservations, the native peoples will bear the brunt of Carter's energy policy. The land is leased, underground and strip mining commences, and people are relocated. The "Indian wars" are not over. In one year, according to Peter MacDonald, tribal chairman of the Navajo reservation, "The Navajo Nation exports enough energy resources to fuel the needs of the state of New Mexico for 32 years...
Amin enjoyed Saturday-morning visits at the SRB, Often he ordered two or three couples under sentence of death to strip and make love before him. Says Kisuule-Minge: "Amin would lounge on the counter sipping Russian wine and roar with laughter as the couples had sex on the floor." But after a while he would tire of the show and leave. The couples, who were always promised freedom if they pleased the President, were then returned to their cells...