Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minor accidents, regulatory procedures and routine maintenance and refueling. There were no electricity shortages, no brown-outs. With nukes providing less than four percent of U.S. electricity (itself only a fraction of total energy needs), with 30 to 50 per cent of our energy being wasted, with a huge excess electrical generating capacity on the part of the utilities, even a modest program of energy efficiency would totally eliminate the need for the uneconomic, inefficient, and highly dangerous practice of generating electricity with nuclear power...
...general relativity theory: if a very massive object were located almost directly between the earth and a distant star, its tremendous gravity would act as a "gravitational lens" that could bend the starlight into two different paths. To produce the effect observed at Kitt Peak, the astronomers calculated, a huge galaxy or a black hole at least 10 trillion times as massive as the sun would be required...
...United Transportation Union and the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks have halted operations on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, which serves 1,680 grain elevators in the Midwest. And for almost three months a strike by the American Federation of Grain Millers has closed the 13 huge grain elevators in the port of Duluth-Superior, stopping 10% of all U.S. grain exports...
...subsequent visits lasted for many hours (sessions of five to seven hours were not uncommon); yet on no occasion did he reveal any impatience or imply that he had anything else to do. We were never interrupted by phone calls or the bureaucratic necessities of running a huge state. I do not know how he managed it; I used to joke that senior officials in Washington would probably not be able to free so much time for the Second Coming...
...Nixon's huge presidential party reached Peking at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 21, 1972. Nixon, Kissinger and most of their staffs were quartered in a large guesthouse near the old Imperial Fishing Lake, Secretary of State William Rogers and his entourage in a smaller one a few hundred yards away. "The Chinese had well understood the strange checks and balances within the Executive Branch," Kissinger notes wryly, "and had re-created the physical gulf between the White House and Foggy Bottom in the heart of Peking." Barely three hours after his arrival, Nixon received a sudden invitation...