Word: lopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China problem thus reverts to where it was before the Lop Nor blast -how to stem Peking's slow erosion of the Western position in Asia...
...bleak land around Lop Nor, a salt lake in the Takla Makan Desert of Red China's Sinkiang province, is one of the most remote and unpleasant places on earth. But last week Lop Nor was suddenly familiar to all the world when President Johnson pinpointed it as the place where the Chinese had conducted their first atomic test...
...neat theory was destroyed when the AEC announced a preliminary analysis. That report indicated that the Chinese test used "a fission device employing U-235." Unless the Russians in friendlier years got the Lop Nor bomb work started with a goodly amount of U-235, the Chinese must somehow have scraped up the electricity to make the stuff, or less likely, invented a new and better process...
...mines were losing $10 million a year, and only aid from the U.S. kept the industry going. A year later, Paz signed an agreement with the U.S., the Inter-American Development Bank and West Germany for $38 million to modernize the mines, promising in return to lop 6,000 men from the payrolls. Lechin and his miners threatened civil war. But Paz had enough political strength to ride out the storm. By last week 2,400 miners had been laid off; others will go. Says Guillermo Bedregal, boss of the mining complex: "By the end of this year, the mines...
...will help increase profits, which have shrunk from 9.5% of sales in 1957 to 4.7% last year. Reorganization will also mean fewer white-collar jobs. In the past two years, U.S. Steel has trimmed its office payroll by up to 30% ; the estimates are that the latest move will lop off another...