Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mass Ave. to the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, often used as a meeting place by Bread and Roses, a Cambridge-based women's liberation group. The marchers circled the Square, spray-painting cars, walls, and sidewalks with the biological female symbol and liberation slogans. "The people are the great ocean- they cannot be contained," one banner read...
...losing jobs because the barges can be unloaded in mid-harbor and towed to distant river points, longshoremen wrested a promise from shipowners to load only at dockside in the U.S. Despite such make-work arrangements, shipping men expect the LASH vessels to open a new era in ocean cargo transportation. If so, the Lash Italia could be the most important new American ship since the first Yankee clipper...
...relatively the same dilemma BU's students circulated a petition whose signees agreed, if the building was begun immediately, to pay an extra $25 each year they attended in a program spanning ten years. An extra $25 added on to our tuitions would be but a drop in the ocean when compared with the exorbitance...
...which is heated to about 18 F above its original temperature. Although over 900 reactors are expected in the U. S. by the year 2000, just 120 of them would require more water than the total annual runoff from the continental U. S. Coastal power stations which use ocean water are being offered as a solution to this problem...
...Alvin-inspired findings are of more than academic interest. "One obvious implication concerns the use of the deep sea as a dumping site for organic wastes," the report says. Because of the slow degradation of organic materials, anything dumped on the ocean floor may be effectively removed from the natural recycling process, and whatever nutrients it contains will be lost-perhaps for as long as a century...