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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...representatives will then decide which questions will be on the referendum, or to abandon the project. The motion passed also stipulated that any individual may propose a potential question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Assembly To Frame Questions For College-Wide Referendum | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...nuclear physicist trained in the '50s, I have been appalled at the low level on which the nuclear energy debate has been conducted. When dozens of workers are killed in an oil refinery explosion, no one suggests that we abandon the use of fossil fuels. When a water pipe in a nuclear reactor develops a hairline fracture, hysteria follows. Nuclear reactor safety is a highly quantitative and technical matter. It is high time that responsible journalism calls for rational discourse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1978 | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...margin. But people do not intend to vote solely on the tax issue: only a third of those surveyed said they would switch away from an otherwise preferred candidate if he took a stand against a tax cut, less than the percentage of voters who said they would abandon a preferred candidate if he came out in favor of federally funded abortions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Wishing for More for Less | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...even possible that he decided to defect because he feared that he was about to be recalled to Moscow, where he no longer would be able to pursue the self-indulgent life to which he had become accustomed. Chavez's revelations, however, will certainly require Shevchenko to abandon some of his breezy ways. He said last week that he was going underground to continue some "very serious work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Saga of a Decadent Defector | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Every once in a while our existential dependency on the environment asserts itself. Even Harvard had to cancel its classes in the wake of the most massive snowstorm in Massachusetts' recorded history last winter. And more tragically, families living in New York's Love Canal have had to abandon their homes when chemicals dumped there 16 years ago came bubbling up through the ground, destroying trees and wildlife and unborn lives...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Seeing Through the Apocalypse | 10/19/1978 | See Source »

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