Word: 1980s
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Project Independence is the U.S. effort, still largely undefined, to achieve near total independence of OPEC by the 1980s through conservation and expansion of domestic energy production...
...importance. They are trying to entice the Russians into other joint space ventures-if only to keep alive the badly curtailed U.S. manned space program. As one NASA official put it: "Keep in mind that the U.S. has no additional manned space activities on tap until the 1980s...
...huge advantage in MIRV missiles. By next year it will have deployed 1,046 MIRVS, including 550 Minuteman III missiles and 496 Poseidon missiles in 31 submarines. It should approach the 1,300 limit when ten new Trident submarines, each carrying 24 MIRV missiles, are completed in the mid-1980s...
...ships 800,000 bbl. daily to northern-tier states and the Midwest, accounting for 20% of U.S. imports, about equal to inflow from Nigeria. Last week the Canadian National Energy Board issued a report showing that the country could lose self-sufficiency by the early 1980s if exports to the U.S. continued at present levels. Accordingly, Ottawa's Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, Donald S. Macdonald, announced that exports to the U.S. would be cut by 100,000 bbl. by Jan. 1, even more later in the year, and would possibly be phased out altogether by the 1980s...
...report, prepared by Henry W. Kendall, professor of Physics at MIT and Sidney Moglewer, an operations research analyst with the McDonnell Douglas Corporation, charges that the risk of a reactor accident in the early 1980s is over 400 times greater than that predicted by the reactor safety study, which was released in August...