Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Since World War II, we have had a phenomenal rate of malusage so that in each decade-the '50s and the '60s-the world consumed more than had been used up in all previous human history. Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s. The world, which is now consuming about 60 million bbl. a day, faces a limit on production somewhere around 75 million or 80 million bbl. a day. That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most of the possibility of further expansion of oil production...
...flowing lava, beasts on the Kenya highlands and fish and flora along an ocean floor. In Eden, Adam and Eve are discreetly nude, and without navels. Heyman insists that he will film every jot and tittle of the Law of Moses, but his project will be well into the 1990s before he faces the challenge of dramatizing the doctrinal letters of the Apostle Paul...
Still, some U.S. airplane manufacturers hope that the Concorde gets the green light at U.S. airports. They feel that the start of Concorde service would spur interest in their own efforts to develop an economical, environmentally acceptable SST, which the U.S. could build and fly by the 1990s. Considering the fact that no one is really sure about the Concorde's adverse effects on the environment, many airline executives also note that it would simply be unfair-and inimical to good international relations-to keep...
...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...
...implode" deuterium pellets. Energy has been produced, but not enough to be measured accurately or drive the laser. Within three to five years, scientists hope to reach that break-even point. Power from fusion could become a commercial reality on a small scale by the middle to late 1990s...