Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rising demand for power, but unable to build new facilities because of opposition from environmentalists, the company carried nonexistent reserve-generating capacity on its books, and more or less hoped for the best. When Luce took over, two new plants were under construction and plans were under way to develop a hydroelectric facility atop Storm King Mountain on the Hudson River. Though all three projects were supposed to be on line by mid-1972, it took the new chairman nearly a year to realize that the target dates were wildly unrealistic. By then, costs were soaring and the environmental lobby...
Summertime-but for Jimmy Carter, the living wasn't easy. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was arriving in Washington this week for some difficult talks, preceded by the news that Germany had agreed with France, Italy, Belgium and Holland to develop the fast-breeder nuclear reactor that Carter opposes. At home, American Jewish spokesmen continued to charge that Carter was coddling the Arabs. So the President found it prudent to meet with 53 American Jewish leaders and assure them in front of reporters that he wanted an Arab commitment to "full diplomatic relations" with Israel as part...
...number of marijuana-related highway accidents. A study of 300 fatal car crashes in the Boston area has already shown that 16% of the involved drivers were apparently under the influence of marijuana (alcohol was involved in 30% of the accidents). For this reason, NIDA is planning to develop a simple marijuana-detection test, similar to those used for alcohol, so that police can quickly determine whether a motorist is too "high" to drive...
Because of their vast size and huge needs, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are ideal economic trading partners. Saudi Arabia wants just about everything the U.S. has-and lots of it. The Saudis are striving to develop a modern defense system, and this year they will spend $10.7 billion on weapons, many from the U.S. The U.S. is building coastal defense vessels for the fledgling Saudi navy and training the crews. American firms have contracts totaling $17 billion for goods and services sold to Saudi Arabia. Thirty thousand Americans are now working in Saudi Arabia, at jobs ranging from installing...
Writers Levinson and Link develop a few pleasant comedy bits involving Segal's status as a divorced father who is trying hard to control his cigarette habit but not hard enough to control his fast lip. They also devise a nice, slow-motion chase between Segal and Bottoms in one of the amusement parks where the film was shot. This material is at least mildly amusing, and affords excuses for Old Pros Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark to come on irascible...