Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...working on a project called Powersat, which involves assembling a nine-mile-long solar-heat collector in space; once assembled, it can ride along in orbit beaming the sun's power back to earth. On a more mundane level, Boeing has a contract with the Energy Research and Development Administration to develop a 10 million-watt power plant using heliostats-mirror-like reflectors that would catch the sun's rays and reflect them to a central receiving tower where their heat would be used to drive a turbine...
...coonskin cap and buckskin breeches, Daniel Boone has to remain constantly on the alert against the Shawnee and Cherokee Indians who are threatening the little settlement he is helping to develop along the Kentucky River. (Two white men were murdered last December, and more than half of the 500 original settlers have returned home.) When no hostile Indians are in sight, Boone forages for food, but friends claim that he is too softhearted to shoot small animals. Instead, he prefers a trick called "barking off squirrels." Says one Kentucky taleteller: "The whiplike report resounded through the woods. Judge...
...disrupted by the war. King's College has been closed since April, when the Committee of Safety ordered the trustees to prepare the college building for use as a military hospital. Yale College remains open, but may have to close before winter if shortages of food and firewood develop as expected. Because of a tight budget due to the war, the Connecticut General Assembly has refused to grant the college its usual funds...
...budget deficits and an effort to persuade the Federal Reserve Board to increase the nation's money supply more rapidly. He also proposes a variety of Government inducements to private industry to step up hiring, including more money for on-the-job training programs and research assistance to develop promising technologies such as solar energy. Another Carter recommendation: an intriguing plan under which a company that would ordinarily lay off, say, 10% of its employees would instead keep all of them on the payroll for a shorter week−and the Government would share the extra cost...
...Japanese-American friends to support his son while he writes. "There's an active interest among Asian-Americans to see something written," Asakawa said. "Tradition keeps your identity in a lot of ways. And in recent years it has become popular to encourage separate communities of ethnics to develop." But, he added, "a novel doesn't work just because you are an ethnic, unfortunately...