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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...festival that he went home and invented a home oil refinery. It is about the size of a 55-gal. oil drum and, he says, can refine crude oil into gasoline and home heating oil at the rate of 12 gal. of each a day. The cost is slightly higher than retail: "This is not something you'll use to save money, but in an OPEC emergency it's ideal." He offers to custom-build the refineries for about $1,500 (you supply the power source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Festival of the Fed-Up | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...report's toughest language is aimed at the ''understaffed and conceptually weak'' training of the control room operators at T.M.I. There is an indirect accusation that such training may be even more deficient elsewhere in the industry. The T.M.I, operators, the report notes, scored higher than the national average in the NRC licensing and operating examinations. Nonetheless, in these tests, ''emphasis was not given to fundamental understanding of the reactor and little time was devoted to instruction in the biological hazards of radiation. The content was left to the instructors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Scathing Look at Nuclear Safety | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Moscow's drive has already assumed the proportions of its campaign in 1977 and early 1978 against the proposed deployment of the neutron warhead. Under withering pressure from leftists and peace activists, Western Europeans resisted the idea, and President Carter eventually decided to abandon it. The stakes are higher in the current proposal: to modernize NATO's theater nuclear forces with the deployment of 572 mobile, intermediate-range cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western European countries, as a counterforce to the more than 100 advanced multiwarhead SS-20 missiles already stationed in the western Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: That Shrill Soviet Campaign | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...believe we should penalize condominium owners by assessing" their properties at higher values than other city residents, Frisoli, a graduate of Boston University and Suffolk University Law School, said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Council Profiles | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...public relations." Last month, for example, the WCC sponsored a day-long conference in Washington which brought together a variety of HEW officials and women's college presidents, including Horner. Following an opening address from Harris, the group discussed a variety of policy and program options in women's higher education. "Women's colleges have never had that kind of opportunity," Sharp says. "Harris has a very special interest in women's colleges," HEW liaison Karnovsky adds. education will only be the property of HEW for another six months," Karnovsky said she hopes that the links already established will transfer...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Radcliffe: On Her Own | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

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