Word: ores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Portland, Ore...
Nixon's own welfare-reform plan was advanced three years ago by Daniel Moynihan, a Kennedy Democrat who used his charms and powers of persuasion as a presidential assistant to help win over Nixon's more conservative inclinations. Buried in the ore of a tough work-ethic requirement for the able-bodied on welfare were the Administration's glittering liberal jewels: 1) a guaranteed annual income eventually set as $2,400 for a family of four, 2) income supplements for the working poor, and 3) an extension of coverage to all male-headed families, since many states...
...that it contained an abnormally low proportion of uranium 235, the radioactive isotope that powered the first atomic bomb with its awesome energy. In all other known uranium deposits-including a sample brought back from the moon by Apollo astronauts-U-235 invariably makes up .72% of the uranium ore; but the samples from the Oklo mine, which was opened in 1969, contained as little as .44% of U-235. Until the French discovery, levels that low had been found only in depleted uranium fuel taken from atomic reactors in which the U-235 had been "burned...
Coupled with this unexpected find was the announcement-made by scientists at the French atomic center at Ca-darache-that the Oklo ore also contained four rare elements in forms similar to those found in depleted uranium. To Perrin, those clues suggested that deep under the African soil, random natural conditions had prompted an energetic but nonexplosive chain reaction-a phenomenon that man can produce only by scientific techniques...
...Besides Portland and Baton Rouge, they include Boise, Idaho; Baker, Ore.; Seattle, Wash.; Birmingham; Pueblo, Colo., and Helena, Mont...