Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Colleges also expect to be hit hard as the baby-bust generation of the late '60s and early '70s begins to turn 18 in the 1980s. For economic and other reasons, enrollments have already started to shrink, but the situation will get worse in the years to come. John Silber, president of Boston University, predicts that some 200 smaller colleges, accommodating an average of 5,000 students each, will have to close, and many larger institutions will become academic ghost towns. Anticipating the coming pinch, the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts has cut three buildings...
...Ford hopes to test Stirling engines soon in four medium-sized Torinos. If all goes well, says Collins, the Rev. Stirling's old dream might yet become reality-perhaps as early as the 1980s...
...ranging agreement that brought Egypt and the U.S. closer together than ever before-but will pose delicate problems for Nixon when he visits Israel this week. The President promised to try to provide Egypt with nuclear reactors and the know-how to operate atomic-power stations by the early 1980s. The main catch: working out a foolproof safeguard system to guarantee that the Egyptians could not use the nuclear equipment to make atomic weapons. The prospect of the Arabs' getting nuclear help from the U.S. raised immediate alarm in Israel and in the U.S. Congress. Democratic Senator Frank Church...
Phase II of Harvard's construction plan calls for addition of an L-shaped building--also for use by the government and economics faculties--sometime in the 1980s...
...getting the gas deal, with U.S. participation, sewed up too. If that can be done, the Soviets could start receiving Japanese mining and foresting machinery by September. Siberian timber could start moving to Japan as early as this fall, coal by 1979 and natural gas some time in the 1980s at the earliest. If the September deadline is not met, the loan will not be made, and Japanese-Soviet economic cooperation will still be mired in Siberian...