Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used reactor fuel are located or planned in France, Britain, West Germany, Japan, India and the Soviet Union. Programs involving breeder reactors are under way in the Soviet Union, India, France, West Germany and Japan. (In 1983, the U.S. canceled its $4 billion Clinch River breeder facility, located at Oak Ridge, Tenn., because of long construction delays, steep cost increases and a declining need for additional nuclear power installations...
Already, though, some diehard Coke drinkers are fretful. "I wonder if they're not going to ruin a good thing," said Joan Kelly, 37, a real estate agent who keeps a regular supply of 24 cases of Coke stashed in the basement of her home in Oak Park, near Chicago. "I love Coke. We all do. My husband. My kids." Said Christine Dale, a student at the University of Chicago graduate school of business: "I think this is definitely a step in the wrong direction." But other early tasters liked the new Coke (see box). Said Emanuel Goldman, beverage analyst...
...being rocked within the next nine years by a tremor. Residents of the town, which lies along the San Andreas Fault, seem unconcerned. "We don't have any high-rise buildings," observes Duane Hamann, the hamlet's only schoolteacher. "We just better stay out from under the old oak tree...
...nearly three-quarters of a century, the heavy oak drawers and musty, dog- eared cards of the New York Public Library's catalog room were the index to knowledge for countless scholars and schoolchildren. Last month, however, the card catalog served up its last title, author and book number. As part of the main library's $45 million face-lifting, the catalog room is being computerized, its 8,973 drawers and 10 million cards replaced by a central memory bank and 50 low-slung terminals. Instead of thumbing through stacks of 3-by-5 cards in search of a book...
...their more personal items were read off, Virginia Jensen wept. There was a loveseat, a silver oil lamp, brass candlesticks, a woman's rocker. When Baum cited "an oak bedroom set," she lost control. "These are family heirlooms," she shouted. "They've been in our family for 150 years. They're not for sale." But they were. Under the rules of the auction, the articles could not be split up; all of them would go to the highest single bidder. A lawyer for the Citizens State Bank bid $89,000 for everything, the only bid offered. (The rule was designed...