Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vernon plant is one of the first of between 50 and 100 atomic reactors with which the AEC plans to blanket the-Northeast before the year 2000, and it raises some important questions about the Nuclear Nirvana envisioned for America by utilities, the AEC and electricity fiends in general...
...plant is not equipped to trap any gas released during reprocessing and over 30,000 curies of gaseous radioactive krypton (K85) are released every month. One curie, fully absorbed, is fatal. With prevailing winds from the west a serious hazard is posed for Buffalo 30 miles to the northeast and for Vermont, which thought its problems had ended when the wastes first left the state...
Limited Savings. Indeed, in strongly unionized places like the Northeast, the Pacific Coast and most big cities, the suspension will have little if any effect. In rural areas and in cities of the South, Southwest and parts of the Midwest, where open-shop building is more common, some contractors may be able to cut their prices ever so slightly for future projects. Big nonunion contractors may now begin bidding on federal projects, but a complicating factor is the existence of "baby Davis-Bacon" laws in 37 states. Much Government-aided construction-schools, highways, hospitals-is partly state-financed, and unions...
...game, Anne protested that she could not photograph a colony of wart hogs below: she was blocked by photographers waiting to photograph her. Brother Charles, who landed a 62-lb. perch in Kenya's Lake Rudolf before setting off on a four-day camel safari in the wild northeast, also had a complaint about the cameramen. "Watch it!" he snapped when one of them discarded some film cartons. "I hope you are not going to leave that litter around in this beautiful country." The photographer picked up the cartons...
...TIME'S story on Cambodia, "Pinching the Arteries" [Jan. 25], has Admiral Thomas H. Moorer describing the situation as deteriorating, though not really critical; later in the story, you say that the Communists "are trying to carve out staging areas in the northeast." Yet your accompanying map shows the Communists in almost total control of the country, with only a tiny sliver around Phnom-Penh in government hands and another relatively small area rated as "disputed." Which is correct...