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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Unit 2, technicians on the lobster shift one night last week faced a tranquil, even boring watch. Suddenly, at 4 a.m., alarm lights blinked red on their instrument panels. A siren whooped a warning. In the understated jargon of the nuclear power industry, an "event" had occurred. In plain English, it was the beginning of the worst accident in the history of U.S. nuclear power production, and of a long, often confused nightmare that threw the future of the nuclear industry into question...
...huge treaty books were ready at last. Bound in gilt-edged blue morocco leather, there were nine copies of the document, one each for each participant in Hebrew, Arabic and English. White House crews had already tended the greening patch of grass at the site of the ceremony, placed a low riser on the spot and then tenderly carried from the second-floor Treaty Room the sturdy Victorian table that had been pur chased in the time of Ulysses S. Grant. Used by the Cabinet up to the day of Teddy Roosevelt, the table had witnessed some important business. Calvin...
...Libyan revolution. Our revolution is based on an international ideology, not on a national movement. We have established what we call a "jamahiriya, "which can be defined [Gaddafi shifted from Arabic into English] as "a state run by the people without a government." We believe if governments disappeared and the peoples of the world governed themselves, peace would prevail. The main elements of our new socialism are the vanishing of wages and rents. Employers would disappear; those who are paid wages should become partners in work...
...representing many different approaches to urban policy problems. While faculty with graduate degrees in economics are the single largest group in the department they represent about one third of the total number. The faculty also includes men and women with training in planning, geography, law, public policy, political science, English, sociology, engineering, public administration, education, business, and social ethics. Regardless of their disciplinary background, moreover, faculty have made meaningful contributions to planning practice and scholarship...
Ronald C. Egan, assistant professor of Chinese Literature, explained yesterday that because the Chinese language assigns sounds to characters that represent whole words, Chinese cannot be broken down into phonetic elements or letters as in English...