Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most likely approach will employ long, narrow metal canisters, to be loaded with spent fuel, embedded deep in the rock of large (2,000-acre) manmade caverns, then completely covered over. Aboveground, a typical waste burial site is expected to look something like a mining operation. The method of waste transport is also an issue unaddressed by the bill. The preferred mode is by train; the Energy Department claims success testing a 150-ton railcar cask able to withstand crashes and fires. In the lengthy saga of nuclear-waste disposal, acknowledged a spokesman for the Atomic Industrial Forum, a trade...
...steel and appliance industries. One reason was that the Japanese were developing their large domestic market. When they belatedly entered the U.S. battlefield, they concentrated not on selling whole systems but on particular sectors?with dramatic results. In low-speed printers using what is known as the dot-matrix method the Japanese had only a 6% share of the market in 1980; in 1982, they provided half the 500,000 such printers sold in the US Says Computerland President Ed Faber: "About...
More important than the actual agreement was what was left out. The conference did nothing to resolve the crucial question of how much oil each member should produce. That leaves OPEC without a formal method for limiting its output to maintain its price. Such a method is the heart of a true cartel. Notes John Lichtblau, president of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation: "To agree on an overall production level does not mean that much when you cannot decide how to set this level. The question of who will produce what is really the most important thing...
...N.F.L. today, soccer-style place kicking is more than the vogue. According to 26 of the 28 teams, it is the superior method. The only two field-goal kickers still swinging their legs straight are Rick Danmeier of the Minnesota Vikings and Moseley. "That's why I was glad to see Moseley get the record," said Lou ("the Toe") Groza, the Cleveland Browns' famed footman, who also played tackle in the '50s. "At least Moseley looks like a football player. I was talking to George Blanda a while back, and he said, 'You know, if they...
...method, devised by scientists at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Md., the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, is based on experiments on baboons. It has been used in only a handful of human patients suffering from severe thalassemia or sickle cell anemia. These blood disorders result from defects in the genes that control production of hemoglobin, the substance that carries oxygen in the blood. In essence, thalassemia victims cannot form healthy red blood cells on their own and require periodic transfusions; sickle cell patients are subjected...