Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vaguely reassured that he had had the same general response as I, and vowed that when I got married, which I prayed might be very soon (though on the face of things it was unlikely), I would get us an apartment at least on street level, and perhaps closer to Paris than Central Square...
Later, during talks with other officials in the Legislative Palace, she could hear the shouts of between 100 and 150 students yelling "Yankee imperialism!" and "Imperialist Rosalynn Carter!" A couple of Molotov cocktails were thrown and the police fired some tear gas, but the demonstrators got no closer than 100 yds. away from her motorcade and evidently had no intention of threatening her personally...
Although living standards have risen sharply on the West Bank, Arab leaders resent the economic bonds that tie them closer and closer to Israel. Nearly 40,000 West Bankers now commute to jobs in Israel-at wages one-fifth lower than comparable Israeli pay. Israel has become the West Bank's principal trading partner and the West Bank is now Israel's principal export market after the U.S. Meanwhile, the Jewish settlements have built a thriving agribusiness ($27 million last year) in competition with Arab farmers...
...universally available fuel. Energy created by a process that is relatively harmless to the environment and leaves behind no byproduct that can be converted into dangerous weapons. To a world facing the long, frigid night of fuel shortages, it seems like a glorious dream. That dream may be somewhat closer to reality than most people realize. In laboratories in the U.S., the Soviet Union, Western Europe and Japan, scientists are involved in a spirited competition to become the first to achieve one of the most important-and difficult-goals ever sought by man: the harnessing of nuclear fusion. If that...
...1960s, tokamaks are toruses, or doughnut-shaped chambers, surrounded by huge electromagnets. Gas is fed into the chamber and heated until it becomes a plasma. Powerful fields produced by the magnets hold the plasma and keep it from touching the chamber walls. The temperature of the plasma is raised closer to fusion temperatures by passing electric currents and shooting beams of high-energy atoms through it. With these techniques, tokamaks have come the closest of any magnetic device to the magic combination of confinement time, temperature and plasma density necessary to sustain fusion. At the Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory...