Word: extract
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...research facilities. At least eleven nations possess facilities for the reprocessing of nuclear fuels, all yielding varying amounts of plutonium. Large enrichment facilities to turn uranium into nuclear fuel, or bomb-grade material, exist in the U.S., the Soviet Union, the Netherlands, France and China. Commercial reprocessing plants to extract plutonium from used reactor fuel are located or planned in France, Britain, West Germany, Japan, India and the Soviet Union. Programs involving breeder reactors are under way in the Soviet Union, India, France, West Germany and Japan. (In 1983, the U.S. canceled its $4 billion Clinch River breeder facility, located...
...episode recalled the early 1980s, when Solidarity, the independent trade union, wielded its strike weapon to extract concessions from Poland's Communist leaders. Faced with a threatened 15-minute nationwide walkout called by the now banned labor organization, the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski last week postponed planned food-price hikes averaging some 12%. Unlike the old days, both sides claimed victory. The authorities attributed their decision not to Solidarity's walkout plans but to actions by the officially sanctioned All-Poland Trade Union Alliance, which had also come out against the price rises. The government thus sought to turn...
...bypass surgery performed less than two years ago. "The scarring made it difficult to identify structures," explained Lansing, who assisted in the operation. "It's like looking through a fog." As a result, instead of taking the usual five minutes, it took half an hour just to extract the organ. Once that was accomplished, DeVries easily installed the Jarvik heart, using the technique he had practiced and honed on hundreds of animals...
...week. The exhibit, which travels to Los Angeles in March, is sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania and the National Museum of Thailand, both of which organized the major dig at the site in 1974-75. During the excavation, archaeologists and Thai officials battled looting and cave-ins to extract artifacts from the 62-acre mound...
Sooner or later, the searchers expect to capture a mine intact and perhaps extract from it some clues about its origin. Whenever that occurs, it could prove costly to the culprits, whoever they may be. Egypt's Mubarak vowed that as soon as the mystery is solved, the ships of the nation or nations responsible for the mining will be banned from the Suez Canal. -By William E. Smith. Reported by Philip Finnegan/Cairo, with other bureaus