Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...material that will be shipped to MIT from Oak Ridge Laboratories in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is highly irradiated metal for use in tests to find a safe material for the construction of fusion reactors...
Then, gliding down a slope through hickory and oak trees with Rosalynn, Carter caught a ski on a rock and tumbled, landing on his left elbow and shoulder. In considerable pain, he was flown by helicopter to Bethesda Naval Hospital outside Washington, where an X ray showed that he had broken his left collarbone. Treated with painkillers, and his arm in a sling, the President flew back to Camp David to finish the weekend in less energetic fashion. Still, he planned to go to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl game on New Year's Day, as the final...
...dead elaborate burials. Now a Swedish pathologist has designed a new casket that he claims is suited to the less ceremonial 1980s. It is made of wax-impregnated corrugated cardboard and is said to be just as durable as an ordinary pine box. With its outer finish of imitation oak or walnut, it even resembles a wooden casket. Promoters point out that the cardboard model can be shipped flat to reduce transportation costs, conserves scarce natural resources, costs only one-tenth as much as a traditional casket and will start to decompose in about three years...
...more information, write Energy, P.O. Box 62, Oak Ridge, Tenn...
...into a little trouble toward the end of his term. Some of his appointees, it seems, took a Department of Housing and Urban Development Federal Block Grant program and turned it into a "geared to the greedy, not to the needy" campaign to remodel their friends' homes. They put oak panelling in bedrooms and took bribes from contractors. The indictments--naming 17 men in all--came down two weeks ago. But in this election, Parker says, Reagan doesn't need a scandal to win.CrimsonRobert O. Boorstin...