Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vulnerability. The Capitol blast followed the bombing or attempted bombing last year of 32 buildings across the country that are owned or leased by the Federal Government. Well before last week's explosion, security at all federal buildings had already been tightened in the wake of the alleged plot by the Berrigan brothers (TIME, Jan. 25) to kidnap Henry Kissinger and blow up heating ducts in the capital's underground area. The 7.5-mile tunnel system that connects the basements of Government office buildings in Washington has been equipped with an alarm system and most of its manholes...
...periodic low-level discharges are not what principally alarms anti-reactor groups. The big fear is of a major accident at Vernon. Although it is certain that the plant cannotsustain a full, A-bomb blast, it can easily run out of control, melting its safety devices and enclosures. Such overheating would cause explosions of superheated water which could rupture the reactor shielding, releasing highly radioactive particles and gases...
...injured in the blast, which occurred on the floor below the Senate chambers. The explosion caused an unestimated amount of damage to a washroom, the Senate barbershop and adjoining offices...
...scheduled-airline seats, scrutinize every federal income tax return. Computers help to diagnose illnesses, plan radiation therapy, and map a path for the brain surgeon's scalpel. One computer has synthesized the tone of a trumpet so authentically that experts cannot distinguish it from a genuine trumpet blast. In fact, the cybernetic sweep has reached so far that one harassed Manhattanite placed an ad last week in the New York Times begging computers to spell his name correctly: Ruben Morris...
...several pressures that they feel will prevent the nation from recovering its economic health as rapidly as the President and his advisers hope. All expect a fairly long steel strike. Alan Greenspan's forecast of a $1,047 billion G.N.P. assumes that a walkout will shut down the blast furnaces for eight weeks this summer...