Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ocean wavelet...
WINDS AND TIDES. Though the earth's winds are too irregular to serve as a major power source, Marine Engineer William E. Heronemus figures that they could still be helpful. He suggests building high windmills out in the ocean on floating platforms, where they could generate the electrical power necessary to distill and break down sea water to obtain hydrogen for fuel cells. The old idea of tidal power is also getting new attention. By harnessing the daily rise and fall of the tides (average: 27 ft.) in the Rance River estuary in Brittany, the French are producing some...
...match was held at a country club overlooking the ocean in Providence, R.I., and the linksmen had to battle high offshore winds on the long, unfamiliar course...
...African Liberation Committee who began organizing in the late summer of 1971 faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their attempt to aid the freedom fighters in three African nations who had been waging decade long wars to push the Portuguese out of the continent. The struggles were an ocean away; they were not directly affected by the American government. Apart from enlisting in the liberation armies, how could PALC help the freedom fighters...
...Common Market countries have commonly replied that the U.S. expects the rest of the world to pay for its own economic mismanagement by helping it to a trade surplus that it has done little to deserve. But now the mood has turned mellower on both shores of the ocean, raising hope that the two sides can substitute reason for rhetoric when they actually get to the bargaining table this fall for a new round of world-trade talks...