Word: fusion
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...FUSION. The ideal solution is to reproduce the sun's own process of joining atomic nuclei to produce clean, safe energy. The process, which also powers the hydrogen bomb, releases so much energy, and the hydrogen used as fuel is so abundant in sea water, that fusion could fill the world's electricity needs for millions of years. But the practical difficulties of confining nuclear particles in "bottles" of magnetic energy (at temperatures approaching 60 million degrees F.) are such that most experts do not foresee fusion working before 1990 at the earliest...
...will people accept the increasing intrusion of think tanks into the government? If the think tanks are allowed to become a constructive part of the policy-making process and if there is a fusion between analyst and decision-maker, the probability is that the public will accept it with eagerness. There are four reasons" (1) Elected officials remain responsible for their actions in their own minds and the minds of the public. A high-level official, being human, has no desire to cede authority to anyone else...
...Asian colonial appendage, was a region governed so badly by its French colonial rulers from the later 19th century through 1940 that Vietnamese nationalism and Vietnamese communism largely coalesced during the struggle against first France, then Japan, and then France again. As a result of such coalescence, such fusion, the leadership of the Vietnamese revolution for independence and nationhood had largely fallen under the control of long indigenous Vietnamese Communists by the mid and late 1940s. Ho Chi Minh was the George Washington of Vietnam, whatever we may think of his politics, though like George Washington he had to struggle...
...Institute of Politics, and probable "related structures"--may prove to be the greatest blessing to the economic vitality of the Square in this century. But it doesn't ease a fear that the ingredients of success may be botched in the mixing, turning the Square into a nightmarish fusion of traffic clots, tickytac and parking lots, thereby destroying: the small stores and whatever atmosphere attends a college town...
...weird fusion of modern democracy and Stone Age dogmatism, the 2,446,000 residents of Papua New Guinea were choosing a House of Assembly that will acquire powers of self-government-and possibly full independence from Australia-over the next four years. A reluctant colonial power, Australia inherited Papua from Britain in 1906, and took New Guinea from Germany in World War I, administering it in recent years as a United Nations trustee. The two territories, which together constitute the eastern half of New Guinea island (the rest is the Indonesian province of West Irian), were given a joint name...