Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high prices and, in the U.S., a strong congressional drive to bust the oil majors into many smaller pieces. Worst of all, the companies seemed trapped in an over-the-hill business: all sorts of "experts" were saying that world oil production would peak as soon as the early 1980s, then start on an irreversible decline...
...make Pocock's optimism seem understated. Once they pass the point at which the rising returns from Alaska, the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico outweigh the enormous sums they are still spending to expand there, the Sisters will probably confront an unusual new problem for the 1980s: coping with a flood of profit so great that the men in charge literally will not know what to do with...
...Space Telescope, a 2.4 m (94 in.) mirror scheduled to be placed in orbit by the space shuttle in the early 1980s. Flying above the obscuring atmosphere, this observatory should pick up a variety of celestial phenomena, including infrared and ultraviolet radiation, and reveal hidden structural details of galaxies that may harbor black holes...
...turning increasingly to older women, who still sharply outnumber men above the age of 45. Significantly, since 1964, the number of males marrying women older than themselves has risen from 12% to 15%, and the trend is expected to continue. The crunch should come in the mid-1980s, when the men born at the tail end of Britain's postwar baby boom begin looking for brides in the smaller pool of women born during the 1960s. That prospect worries many population experts. They point out that a large surplus of males can bring increases in prostitution, homosexuality and serious...
...most promising research is retrogressive. United Technologies is developing a "prop fan"-an eight-blade propeller driven by a jet engine. The blades look like warped boomerangs. They are more efficient for subsonic aircraft than the fanjet engines planned for the 1980s; on flights of up to 1,500 miles, the prop fan would be 40% more fuel economical, since a propeller is more efficient than jet thrust during climb-outs and letdowns. Even so, the boomerang has a problem: excessive noise. Furthermore, how can airlines lure passengers back to a prop after they have flown...