Word: general
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demand is growing much more slowly than it had been in the 1960s and early 1970s. Another is that nuclear construction costs have risen to about $1,000 a kilowatt, from $100 in the 1960s. This compares with $700 for a coal-fired plant. The two main causes are general inflation and the long delays in getting a plant built because of legal challenges by opponents. Says Charles Cicchetti, chairman of the Wisconsin public service commission: "It's time to jump off the nuclear bandwagon." Nonetheless, the industry contends that nuclear plants now in operation deliver power...
...week, a white Louisiana Cajun in a powder blue suit struggled to maintain a faint smile. Reporters barraged him with questions; an angry black woman glowered at him. It was all slightly overwhelming for Brian Weber, 32, a man who says he wants nothing more than to be a general repairman at a Louisiana chemical factory. But to many people Weber personifies the sticky question of reverse discrimination. He had come to the unfamiliar setting of the nation's high court to hear oral arguments in a case, Kaiser Aluminum vs. Weber, that will make his name as well...
...general election has been scheduled for May 3. Labor's Callaghan, 67, and Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher, 53, have squared off for an election campaign that is already regarded as perhaps the most important since 1945, when a massive Labor victory ushered in the welfare state. If the Tories win, as the polls now predict, Britain will gain not only its first woman Prime Minister, but a government whose resoundingly conservative views will run counter to the whole leftward drift of British politics since the end of World...
...that he saw gasohol as a "high priority" fuel alternative and would push to make it more widely available. He was expected to mention the fuel favorably in his energy address this week, and could well announce stepped-up research on gasohol production and measures to place it in general distribution...
Requirements of affirmative action have brought unpredictable results, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said. Advertising often attracts more white males than minorities, he added...