Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asking the automobile industry to shape up, we should all remember that the fault for its current troubles lies not only with the Big Three, but with the entire nation. Our appetite for large and expensive gas-guzzlers has for too long been fed by the pipe dream of cheap gasoline prices. In fact, expectations during the '70s that oil would remain cheap stymied Detroit's efforts to sell an array of smaller models at a profit. The Japanese have shown us that we no longer possess a monopoly on technological creativity and innovation. Spurred by the Japanese example...
...burst of growth-and of inflation. Economist Eckstein thinks that the Federal Reserve may finally have mastered the delicate art of monetary control. "We have just had the first re-entry from money explosion perhaps in history," he marvels. "It really looks as if the Fed was able to bring the money supply under control without killing the economy...
...early warning system is designed to detect the launching of Russian missiles in a nuclear attack on this country. Signals from satellites and radars are fed into a network of computers focused at the North American Aerospace Defense Command Center (NORAD) in Colorado and three other command centers. The information analysed and displayed by the computers is constantly discussed by members of the four commands in "missile display conferences...
November 9, 1979: Data simulating a massive Soviet attack was accidentally fed into the NORAD computer system. Ten jet interceptors took off and the crews of about 1000 Minutemen silos were alerted...
Another conversion option, dense pellets derived from solid waste that can be fed into a furnace to substitute for coal, faces a different problem. The first electric plant designed to use this converted fuel encountered numerous technological and operating difficulties in its first month of operation...