Word: mega
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conference to explore the effects of building a Puerto Rican superport to accomodate transatlantic oil shipments in mega-tankers will be held today at 4 p.m. in Longfellow...
...says U.C. Riverside Vice Chancellor Carlo Golino. "All you had to do was dig in and pull out a new laboratory." Toward the end of that decade, however, student turmoil spread from Berkeley to other California campuses-caused in part by youthful dissatisfaction over the rapid growth of the mega-university -and then came the recession, bringing harder times to many of the nation's colleges. Says U.C.L.A. Chancellor Charles Young: "The fact that some of the problems of our universities hit harder and earlier here, and were more politicized because of Reagan's visibility, has made things...
...Oswald walked clown the "DMZ" to confront a prisoner delegation led by Clark. Brother Richard said he wanted more time; again he demanded "complete, total, unadulterated amnesty" and the removal of "that guy Mancusi." At 9:05 a.m., a convict shouted down the corridor through a mega phone that all hostages would be killed if state troopers tried to storm the compound. Replied Oswald's chief assistant, Walter Dunbar: "Release the prisoners now. Then the commissioner will meet with you." The fatal one-word reply was "Negative...
Confronting the relentless arithmetic of human reproduction is a bit like reading one of Futurist Herman Kahn's nuclear scenarios. One of them deals in "mega-deaths," and the other in what might be called "mega-lives," but the pall of a weirdly objectified apocalypse hangs over both. By the year 2000, some accountants of population figure, the number of the planet's inhabitants will double to 7 billion; by 2025, it will be 15 billion, by 2050, 30 billion, so that in less than a century there will be ten people living for every one now existing...
...what the public would accept stand in the way of his imagination. When I began the book I expected to see the usual massculture view of the future world: the glory of the future American superstate-usually a "World Government" democratically ruled by Americans-in which supercars zoom over mega-highways toward ultracities. But on page 21 found myself staring at the Destruction of the Washington Monument by the Mongols...