Word: accessability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to safeguard access to plutonium materials" to prevent nuclear blackmail by terrorist groups or unstable emerging nations, he said...
...worked from the broader, far more compelling and important opinions he voiced in the previous fall's campaign. The risk of further nuclear proliferation, the President said in withdrawing administration support from Clinch River, "would be vastly increased by the further spread of sensitive technologies which entail direct access to plutonium or other weapons-useable material...
...rising costs of tuition here are rapidly making this university an unthinkable investment for many poor and even middle class families, thus effectively restricting access to the children of the well-to-do. As Caroline Bird has argued in The Case Against College, more and more families are questioning the worth of a private college education, in light of the ever-rising tuition costs, in this Age of Inflation...
...House tapes. In 1973 he had failed to keep the tapes from the Watergate probers, and in 1977 he had unsuccessfully challenged the constitutionality of the Presidential Recordings Act. Still, the battle for the tapes is far from over. The GSA's attempts to set rules for public access promise to bog down in further litigation. Only one thing is for sure: no Nixon recordings are likely to be seen rising on the pop charts any time soon...
EVEN MORE ANNOYING, the orations themselves give the impression that today, finally, in the merged-non-merged '70s, all is well at fair Harvard. We are proudly told of the fact that Radcliffe crew is still a Radcliffe, not a Harvard, team and that "equal-access" admissions has forever solved the perennial problem of the Harvard sex ratio. Ignored are the larger problems of equal funding for women's athletic teams and minority recruitment reluctance. One almost feels that the show was designed with nostalgic alumni in mind...