Word: containers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gignoux said last night the section that will be released is "just a digest of the views which were expressed by the students before the committee," and that it is unlikely to contain observations about the Law School that will surprise students there...
London saw the hard-line policy as a necessary risk. With public morale and confidence sagging, Wilson wanted to present the image of an angry, fed-up government ready to take all measures necessary to contain the violence. This is particularly crucial since Parliament this week begins an important debate on the Ulster situation. The Government does not believe it can impose a political settlement in Ulster, since all previous attempts have failed. But it is prepared to support an emergency interim coalition government of Catholics and Protestants for the province during the present security crisis...
Inside a 52-ft.-high aluminum geodesic dome, which acts as a buffer against the drifting snow, are three prefabricated buildings resembling large mobile homes. They contain sleeping facilities for 40 people, a communications center (including a ham radio shack for contacts with home), a dining hall and kitchen, a small gym and library, a photographic darkroom and several computer-equipped scientific laboratories. In Quonset-like buildings adjoining the dome are the base's power plant, biology lab, dispensary and garage. One of the huts also shelters an ingenious freshwater system that uses heat from the diesel generators...
...most extreme example of it in "Treasures of Sacred Art" is a 16th century reliquary from the Collegiate Church of Calcata, north of Rome. Two elegantly slim silver-gilt angels hold up a casket surmounted by a crown, studded with rubies and emeralds. It is traditionally believed to contain the only relic left on earth by Jesus Christ. True, Christ ascended bodily into heaven before the eyes of the astonished Apostles after his resurrection. But he had been circumcised in the temple as an infant, and the Holy Foreskin, preserved by a succession of devout guardians, is said to have...
...California, the citadel of the automobile culture, the state's highway budget for 1976 was presented last week, and it turned out to contain the lowest outlay for new construction since the 1950s. Road-building crews are to lay only 77 miles of state freeways and expressways, down from an annual aver age of 280 miles over the past eight years. Gasoline taxes that fund the highways are off because of higher gas prices, lower speed limits and less thirsty cars. And inflation boosted highway construction costs in the state by a staggering 60% last year. California...