Word: mid-1980s
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...development of a remarkable new generation of atomic power plants called breeder reactors. Named after their capacity to produce or "breed" more fuel than they consume, breeders have already been built and operated experimentally; they could, if technical flaws are overcome, help meet U.S. energy needs by the mid-1980s. But other scientists believe that breeders are a direct threat to the environment and to human life. Thus, when President Nixon recently declared that the construction of breeders was an important national goal and authorized work on a second demonstration plant, he added fuel to a growing, though...
Audiences interested only in nostalgia should not see Follies now. Let them wait until it is revived in, say, the mid-1980s. Then this imperfect but glittering production will be an item of genuine nostalgia?the show that turned the American musical theater around and pointed it forward...
...Vice President's extraterrestrial ambitions were outrunning the nation's means. Last week the President's task group on post-Apollo space objectives -which Agnew happens to head-made its chairman sound uncharacteristically cautious. It said that the U.S. could send men to Mars in the mid-1980s for not much more than the $24 billion Apollo program...