Word: fusion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Venezuela, and Nigeria in the long-term. And domestic off-shore drilling threatens not to live up to its promise. So, do we need a crash program to develop synthetic fuels? Coal is plentiful, but is it clean enough to be the electricity of the future? Are nuclear power, fusion and fission going to have a role in the next 20 years? And what should the government be spending to foster such research? These questions of supply, though hard to answer now, could have been more adroitly presented since in all likelihood they will have to be faced...
Fifty-five years later, Mumford still displays the same hatred of the mechanistic and the totalitarian, whether promulgated by a ruling junta or a local zoning board. He swears by "the fusion of the emotional and the intellectual, the equal awareness of past and future . . . the unwillingness to put any part of life in a separate compartment detached from the whole...
...Physicist John Wheeler, 70, the distinguished nuclear-fission expert who came to Austin in 1976 after 38 years at Princeton, and Marshall Rosenbluth, 55, a leading plasma physicist. Rosenbluth was lured away from Princeton when U.T. pledged a cool $5 million for five years to establish an institute for fusion studies...
...Fusion Energy Foundation (FEF) decided to start the drive after President Reagan failed to rescind the "Global 2000" report, made part of this country's foreign policy under former President Jimmy Carter, Michael Gelber, a member of the group, said yesterday...
...dialogue often inane. When the music swelled, and Fred took Ginger by the hand, and she leaned into his body, and the dance began, a more beautiful story was told: of the emotions only motion can convey, of two people's need for transcendence, of the perfect fusion of passion and technique into a delicate, sensual mating dance...