Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Small Aftershocks. "The chances are small, but not zero," says Seismologist Lynn Sykes of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. He and other scientists think that a less dangerous method of earthquake control might be to pump liquid into a fault region. Such fluids would relieve stresses by acting, in part, as underground lubricants. Yet this method also poses dangers. In the Denver area, for example, recent shocks were apparently triggered by the disposal of chemical wastes in deep underground wells...
...plans to follow up its recent controversial detonation of a 1.2 megaton H-bomb on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians, another major quake zone, with more powerful underground blasts. To the dismay of scientists, however, these explosions are designed by the AEC not for such peaceful purposes as quake control but only to test new military weapons...
Agenda by Rome. Liberals among the bishops and theologians would like to broaden the discussions to include such divisive issues as birth control and priestly celibacy. There is little likelihood that they will get their way; Rome has set the agenda. But no such proscriptions bound the rebellious European Assembly of Priests, whose 80 delegates began six days of meetings last week...
...companies regularly take over large foreign concerns without much fuss. When a foreign corporation tries to take control of a big U.S. firm, however, Washington immediately starts sounding the alarm. That was the cynical conclusion drawn by many Europeans last week from the U.S. Justice Department's announcement that it would sue to prevent British Petroleum from acquiring control of Standard Oil (Ohio). In fact, much to the chagrin of the State Department, Justice lawyers appeared to be mechanically applying their strict interpretation of antitrust law to what they saw as just another merger-without appreciating that this merger...
...Faculty of the Caoline Institute in Stockholm cited the three men for their discoveries which give deeper insight into the nature of viruses and virus diseases and provide understanding of the mechanism of inheritance and the mechanism that control the development, growth, and functions of the tissues and organs...