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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special interests. Neither is it a conservative coalition. To the chagrin of anti-nuke activists, not even the breeder and its hated plutonium--much less the conventional, safer reactors--can shake up the moderates who control Congress. "We are not going to, pell-mell, rush into a 'breeder age' or 'plutonium economy' or anything else," argued classic middle-of-the-roader, Rep. John Anderson (D-Ill.) recently in an attempt to discredit the catch-phrases used against Clinch River development. Anderson, like many others, voted for proceeding with Clinch River as "an insurance policy...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Breeder Politics | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

...page of The New York Times. It told of the long experience the nuclear industry has had in providing safe, cheap, reliable power. It warned that we can't allow a tiny group of environmental extremists, who want to throw civilization back into the Stone Age, to worry us with their outdated fears about radiation...

Author: By Geoff Bernstein, | Title: We Just Can't Afford... | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

...Care for a Lite Beer, girls? Your combined age is still low enough to make me guilty of statutory rape in 14 states just by looking at you...Just my-luck. When I was a kid. we didn't have girls--my family was too poor. My mother...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: NO RESPECT | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...Nice to meet you, good to meet you," he replied, beckoning to a nearby security guard to escort the young admirers to the exit. "You know, from an early age, I didn't get no respect--no respect at all. Not from my parents, not from my dog; the mailman bit me; the teacher wouldn't put me in the corner, only because she kept me away from sharp objects; my mother...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: NO RESPECT | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stocks vs. Tuition | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

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