Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside, a white stucco facade, a small marquee and a large black-and-white painting of the star of Casablanca help drinkers and dancers home in on Bogart's discothèque, set amid glittering car dealerships, fast-food joints and furniture shops full of Oriental rugs and Naugahyde "suites" on Tucson's East Speedway Boulevard. Inside, a hand-printed sign exhorts visitors: PLEASE, PLEASE. NO HATS OR HEADGEAR. NO MOTORCYCLE JACKETS, NO T SHIRTS, NO BARE FEET...
Most of the reactors now in use and under construction are uranium and graphite devices of a type long since phased out in the West. Soviet industry cannot produce more modern pressurized water reactors fast enough. A huge nuclear components plant scheduled for completion at Volgadonsk is far behind schedule and is an obvious source of embarrassment to Soviet power planners...
...physicists call a lower energy state. Explains the Australian-born Dingle: "It's rather like the inclination of water to flow downhill." The new design worked. Isolated from the obstructing impurities in the alternate layers, electrons flowed at unprecedented velocities through the gallium arsenide layers: nearly twice as fast at room temperatures, and as much as 20 times as fast at lower temperatures...
...guidelines come down to another exercise in jawboning-trying to persuade unions and companies to comply voluntarily. First portents are not favorable. AFL-CIO President George Meany has damned the whole idea of guidelines. He fears that companies will zealously enforce the wage limits while raising prices as fast as ever...
James R. Cervantes '79, a member of the Harvard Hunger Action Project, said yesterday, "This year we will be offering a number of programs to help educate people about the fast." Such programs will include a forum with the professors the day before the fast, explaining how individuals can help to alleviate the world's food problems. Robert Rubin '79, a member of CHUL, said yesterday part of the problem is that "students want to help out but they don't want to fast. "Although we don't feel we can legislate morality, we do need to raise consciousness" about...