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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still taking low-level deposits. At Hanford, officials are already concerned, because containers not meant for more than five-year storage are being misused. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) officials are considering only one new low-level disposal site--the Lion, Kansas salt mines, once ruled unfit to store high-grade nuclear sludge. "We badly need more sites," says Timothy Johnson, associate professor of political science at MIT who assisted in a White House study of the radioactive waste problem. "Existing sites are going to fill up and the demand keeps increasing," Johnson frets. An inter-agency council established by President...
...time, with an eye toward the glaring weaknesses in the Crimson lineup, I regarded Restic's comment as the optimism of a coach desperate for a strength to highlight. After all, spirit? The glee club has spirit; your fourth-grade gym teacher had spirit; an Irish Setter puppy has spirit. But a football team has bulk, speed, agility, experience...
...ancestral spirits. At the stroke of midnight, South Africa's top-hatted President Marais Viljoen strode down a red carpet to announce a "great historic event, the birth of a new state." At his side stood Chief Patrick Mphephu, 54, a small, diffident man with a fifth-grade education, who was soon to become the Executive President of the Republic of Venda, a Delaware-sized region tucked in the northeast corner of South Africa. As Venda's new four-color flag fluttered in the breeze overhead, Mphephu told his fellow citizens, "We must be prepared to preserve...
While Jimmy Carter tried to outrun the attack-rabbit story, Daughter Amy bade goodbye to her maverick mongrel Grits. Born on Election Day 1976, Grits was a gift to the First Daughter from Verona Meeder, her fifth-grade teacher. The dog was returned, presidential aides insisted, because its mother had died, leaving Mrs. Meeder canineless. As usual, however, there were leaks in high places. One was that Amy's pet was sent back because, after 2½ years, it still was not White House broken. · It may be the only gym that contributes profits to California...
Beginning this semester, grade transcripts will mark any grade entered late because of make-up examinations or paper extensions with an asterisk and an explanatory note...