Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spend up to $100 million for construction of a storage facility. The Government favors eventually depositing the spent fuel on a more nearly permanent basis in geologic formations like salt beds. But studies to determine the feasibility of such storage methods will not be completed until the mid-1980s...
...killer to defend against the Soviet version. In September the Defense Department quietly awarded the $58.7 million contract for its own ASAT program to the Vought Corp. of Dallas. The U.S. plan is to leap frog the relatively crude Soviet ASAT technology and put into space by the mid-1980s hunter-killer satellites armed with lasers that could vaporize metal in 20 billionths of a second...
...market. To ward off that long-term threat, Boeing, the giant of the U.S. industry, has sent ace international Salesman E.H. ("Tex") Boullioun to Britain. His mission: to explore possibilities for future collaboration with a British-led European consortium to develop a new generation of commercial jets for the 1980s...
...finds the ultimate X factor to be the Soviet Union. In an analysis that Carter drew on heavily in shaping his national energy plan, the CIA predicted that the U.S.S.R. some time in the mid-1980s would switch from being an oil exporter to a major importer, swallowing enough OPEC supplies to spread shortages throughout the West...
...Canada. At present world prices, they are on the verge of becoming economical to develop. Two plants are already extracting oil from tar sands in Alberta's Athabasca fields, and Shell Canada plans to spend $4 billion for a third plant, which will start producing in the early 1980s...