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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drifted in the years after Viet Nam, embarrassed by power. The Soviets did nothing of the sort. By the early 1980s the U.S.S.R. will probably have caught up with us in almost every modern military category. Their research into new weapons of terror, though now behind ours, will perhaps exceed our own because of the sheer concentration of effort...
...plumbing goes, nuclear power plants exceed Rube Goldberg's wildest fantasies. The basic idea sounds simple-unstable heavy atoms, like those of uranium 235, break up (fission). Scattered in all directions are electrically neutral particles called neutrons as well as fission products such as shortlived radioactive xenon, krypton and iodine. The neutrons hit still other atoms like errant billiard balls in a chain reaction that produces heat. But obtaining useful energy from this process can be extremely complex. Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant has two pressurized water reactors. Such reactors are based on a design pioneered...
...will maximize his income and the patient's satisfaction by using facilities to the greatest extent. The third-party reimbursement system and the flood of federal dollars into medical care have combined to cause explosive growth. The health care industry has tripled in size since 1970; total expenditures now exceed $200 billion per year, almost 10 per cent of the gross national product...
Peking has agreed to buy nuclear reactors from France, a steel mill from Japan and oil drilling equipment from the U.S., and hundreds of other sales are under discussion. The cumulative import bill could easily exceed $40 billion...
...China's task is staggering. Even if it maintained a 6% growth in G.N.P. between now and the year 2000, its per capita income still would not exceed the internationally accepted poverty level of $1,000 a year. The country is starting its development struggle with a heritage of chaos, when the nation's economic machinery rusted and the human capital went untrained. It will take tremendous work and continued ideological flexibility to achieve even the more modest goals that have recently been...