Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...football star, Powell followed a deep Southern tradition by deciding on a military career. In 1961 he was admitted to the Air Force Academy in Colorado, only to be expelled six months before graduation for cheating on a history exam (he glanced at a course outline during a break). "You don't know what loneliness is," he says, "until you drive into your driveway at home, in the Deep South, on Christmas Eve, having just had your ass booted out of a military academy." He went on to Georgia State University, where he earned a degree in political science...
...progress continues at the present rate, the Energy Research and Development Administration-which supplies most of the half-billion dollars now being spent annually for U.S. fusion research-predicts that by the late '70s or early '80s researchers in the U.S., U.S.S.R. and Japan could achieve "break even," or the point at which a machine produces as much power as it uses. Then researchers can concentrate on attaining ignition conditions: the time-temperature-density combinations at which the fusion reaction sustains itself. "By 1985," dreams Ronald Parker of M.I.T.'s Alcator fusion program, "we will have...
...Blue Jays had any chance at all at the half, it was gone after the third quarter, when the Big Red had pushed the lead to 14-3. Hopkins did break through five times in the final stanza, but it is doubtful that anyone was paying attention by then. Cornell's eventual 16-8 margin was the most lop-sided in the seven-year history of the NCAA final...
...sold or traded away the malcontents who were wallowing in the disappointment and frustration of the past two seasons with the Blazers. In their place came players tailored to Big Bill's skills: quick, sure handed guards to snag his crisp outlet passes and start the fast break rolling, big, power forwards to take some of the pressure-and punishment-off Walton in the middle. The combination, tightly harnessed to set plays and team offense, has produced a balanced basketball machine that finished the regular season with an imposing 49-33 record...
...most profound change has been in Walton himself. The counterculture ponytail is gone, sacrificed to the heat of arena lights and the sizzling sweat of the fast-break pace. Press conferences denouncing the FBI have given way to post-game interviews in the warm glow of a victorious team's dressing room. The strict vegetarian diet has been modified to include a Pacific salmon now and then. Walton has hardly become a conservative paragon of the Establishment; he still chomps bean sprouts and supports radical causes. But this year, for the first time in his N.B.A. career...