Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Council owns the copyright on the Revised Standard Version, the most widely used 20th century Bible translation, and two dozen scholars are working on a new edition to be issued in the mid-1980s. At their annual gathering last June, the translators took up the sexism issue and readily agreed to drop masculine language that is not included in the original Hebrew or Greek text...
...improvements in feed and genetics, a broiler now takes only seven weeks to go from egg to slaughterhouse, less than half the time it took to reach eating size a generation ago. At Connecticut's Arbor Acres Farm, geneticists foresee a six-week broiler by the early 1980s...
...three-fourths of Disney revenues and therefore generate the greatest excitement in the Disney organization. With Disneyland and Walt Disney World booming, the company is now moving on the biggest of Walt's ideas: EPCOT, or Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. To be built by the early 1980s in Florida as an expansion of Disney World, EPCOT will be a living laboratory of applied technology in transportation, housing, communications and waste disposal. Near it will rise the World Showcase, a permanent World's Fair. Still another theme park, Oriental Disneyland, now planned to open late in 1979, will...
Eastern's Borman believes that an equally serious problem is soaring operating costs, and he has proposed that they be attacked directly by a joint airline-industry effort to design a super-economical jetliner (with some variations) for the 1980s that could cut costs by as much as 50%. Such an aircraft, Borman contends, would eliminate "massive waste" caused by competing manufacturers' building essentially similar planes for identical markets...
...Navy has fallen badly behind the Soviets. According to the U.S. Navy's own statistics, the Red Navy now has 563 combat vessels, v. the U.S. Navy's 285. Seeking to narrow the gap, the U.S. Navy has undertaken an ambitious building program that by the mid-1980s could bring the fleet up to 600 submarines and surface warships...