Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to contest us on this issue." The Russians, in fact, were suffering more immediately from the oilworkers' strike than the West was. While the Shah's allies worried about the potential future loss of oil exports, a vital pipeline that supplies 10 billion cubic meters per year of Iranian natural gas to military installations and industries in the southern part of the U.S.S.R. was abruptly closed down...
...Edward Lashman, director of external projects, said last week the level of nitrogen dioxide in Boston's air already rises above 200 micrograms per cubic meter several days each year. Lashman said Harvard promised earlier this year to operate the plant so that the level would not exceed 400 micrograms. He added he thought that was a safe limit...
Dawson reviewed several scientific experiments showing that levels of nitrogen dioxide above 200 micrograms per cubic meter will aggravate lung ailments in asthmatics, and possibly in children and the elderly...
...universe's present mean density (the amount of matter per unit of space) exceeds three atoms per cubic meter then the universe is closed. If the universe is insufficiently dense, as current but incomplete results indicate, then it is open and will continue to expand, he said...
Empty space--some scientists are paying at least $500 per half cubic meter for it, but Harvard is getting it free...