Word: loon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been no new domestic orders for nuclear generating plants since 1978. After Three Mile Island, moreover, cancellations came in a flood tide. Work on 18 reactors was halted last year alone, bringing total cancellations since 1972 to 97. Half of those occurred after the Pennsylvania accident. Says Eric Van Loon, executive director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group critical of the nuclear-power industry: "Three Mile Island showed that a $2 billion investment could disintegrate in 30 seconds...
...Vermont, and a few spots remain for students willing to pay $155 for the six-day trip, which begins Saturday. The Ski Club is also planning weekend and seven-day trips during reading period and intercession. They range in price and length from a $75 weekend trip to Loon, N.H., to a week-long trek to the snowy mountains of Aspen...
...watches the loon dive...
...diminishing rewards to writers. Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift brought $313,000 back in 1975, but The Dean's December earned about two-thirds of that sum this year, even though the author had become a Nobel laureate in the interim. E.L. Doctorow's Loon Lake (1980) got one-third of the $1.85 million paid for his Ragtime in 1975. Colleen McCullough's 1977 blockbuster, The Thorn Birds, sold for $1.9 million. But An Indecent Obsession (1981) managed much less. Watergate Conspirator John Ehrlichman and bestselling Feminist Author Betty Friedan recently shared the same...
Terres also explores the arcane richness of animal behavior and man's beliefs about it. Ibis guano, the reader learns, enriches the ecology of the Everglades by increasing plankton growth; a loon can be imitated on the ocarina; geese occasionally become homosexual, pair-bonding for life even when heterosexual partners are present; an auk's egg is a marvel of engineering, shaped so that it will not roll from its cliff-edge nest...