Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dartmouth could prove to be even tougher this year. While it lost no key players to graduation, the squad must make do without 1987-88 Ivy Player of the Year Liz Walter, who is enrolled in a special academic program and is no longer on the team...
Foreign ownership of American farms, companies, banks and bonds has almost doubled since 1981 and now approaches $1.5 trillion. A lower dollar will eventually increase American exports--but will it be America any longer...
...unorthodox choice of Endangered Earth as Planet of the Year, in lieu of the usual Man or Woman of the Year, had its origin in the scorching summer of 1988, when environmental disasters -- droughts, floods, forest fires, polluted beaches -- dominated the news. By August TIME knew it was no longer enough just to describe familiar problems one more time. "The new journalistic challenge," says managing editor Henry Muller, "was to help / find solutions, and that by definition meant international solutions." So we invited a distinguished group of scientists, administrators and political leaders from five continents to a TIME conference charged...
...coal- burning factories began releasing CO2 faster than plants and oceans, which absorb the gas, could handle it. In the early 1900s, people began burning oil and gas at prodigious rates. And increasing population led to the widespread cutting of trees in less developed countries. These trees are no longer available to soak up excess CO2, and whether they are burned or left to rot, they instead release the gas. By the late 1800s atmospheric CO2 had risen to between 280 and 290 parts per million. Today it stands at 350 p.p.m., and by 2050 it could reach...
...main problem is that the modest electrical output of smaller units makes them less economical, at least initially. But proponents argue that inherently safe plants should prove more cost-effective in the long run. Not only would expensive safety systems no longer be needed, but the units could be built on an assembly line and put into operation one module at a time, enabling utility companies to match operating capacity with demand for power...