Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thoughtfulness, for the benefit of Harvard's future, when they already occupy 10 or more equally engrossing positions. Moreover, I also fear that by virtue of the distance in time from their student experiences, they are less eligible to fashion the policies that will shape Harvard University in the 1980s and 1990s...
...leaders tell it, that financially uptight little island need only await the imminent tapping of North Sea oil and gas for the dawning of a bright new day. Prime Minister Harold Wilson jokes: "There is speculation which member of the Cabinet will become chairman of OPEC in the 1980s." Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey says that Britain's petroleum import needs will be halved by 1977 and eliminated within five years...
...while the state-owned Fritz Werner corporation exports entire ready-to-roll munitions factories. Bonn's Leopard tank is highly regarded: Washington may test an advanced Leopard, along with prototypes by General Motors and Chrysler, in a competition to select the U.S. Army's main battle tank for the 1980s...
...interests of the oil companies rather than the public has been the longstanding discouragement of the production of oil from coal. The government and the industry have sponsored several small liquefaction plants but have warned that no commercial liquefaction of coal will be possible before the early 1980s. The Interior Department has estimated that a $2 per barrel subsidy may be necessary to encourage the reproduction of synthetic petroleum...
...determined to harness nuclear fusion, the process that feeds the fires of the sun and gives H-bombs their awesome power. If all goes well, the $215 million test reactor, to be built on the Forrestal campus of Princeton University, will go into operation in the early 1980s...