Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nuclear blast to revive the oil flow from a field previously believed to have run dry. Most surprising to Seaborg was a Russian technique of subduing runaway oil-and gasfield fires by atomic explosions. On two occasions 30-kiloton bombs deep beneath the surface succeeded in sealing fissures that fed the flames by carrying natural gas to the surface...
...know we're all fed up with useless wars and racial strife
...them foot the bill for restoring the coast to its natural state. Delaware Governor Russell W. Peterson was concerned enough about his state's relatively clean shores to promote and sign into law last June a bill that prohibits heavy industry from locating new plants along the coastline. Fed up with New Jersey's polluted shores, which are among the dirtiest in the nation, Governor William Cahill last June signed a law that requires the dumping of sewage sludge and industrial wastes at least 100 miles...
...Meanwhile, a church historian, Dr. Giuseppe Alberigo, and a team of scholars at the Institute of Religious Sciences in Bologna, also examined the new document and promptly issued a 60-page attack on it. They used an unorthodox but ingenious tool to aid their analysis: a computer. The team fed into it terms from both the proposed Lex and Vatican II documents. The computer revealed distinct differences between them. "Although the Lex is filled with references to the council," Alberigo charged, "its faithfulness to it is much less real than a superficial reading would indicate." As examples, he cited some...
...common practice in Roman Catholic schools and universities to pay them less than lay members of the faculty. That "clerical discount" can mean a salary differential of 50%. Now the only two priests on the law school faculty of Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., have become fed up with the policy. The two professors, Father Joseph Broderick and Father David Granfield, have filed separate suits in a Washington federal court seeking parity with other law professors. They thus increased the pressure being applied by a growing group of nuns and priests who argue that their vow of poverty...