Word: phaseout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...antinuclearism becomes respectable, some antinuclear activists gravitate towards national politics, giving the previously localist movement a Washington focus. Antinuclear lobbyists have developed their own version of a moratorium--the nuclear phaseout. Phaseout to some people means no further expansion of the nuclear program, or even just a slowed rate of increase coupled with speeded-up development of conservation and soft energy technologies. Some phaseout plans allow for continued construction and use of nukes well into the twenty-first century before other energy sources can completely replace fission power. But we want, and demand, more: no more plants must be built...
...irreperable health damage already caused by the exposure of plant workers and the general public to increasing radiation levels, we can no longer afford to leave our lives in the hands of the politicians and giant corporations. When we call for shutdowns, we get slowdowns; when we demand a phaseout they will give us some kind of moratorium. The government is trying to make nukes safe so they can continue to operate--but nukes are inherently dangerous, and we will be satisfied with nothing less than an immediate shutdown of all existing nuclear plants and a massive redirection of this...
...handful of products classified as essential--and a few that slipped through a loophole in the federal regulations--may remain on the market. But officials say the exempt products constitued only two per cent of sales before the phaseout began...
...council passed a resolution supporting the union's demands for greater job security. However, the YCC passed a resolution hostile to some of the union's demands for a wage increase. Other YCC members, working independently of the council, convinced the union to drop its request for a gradual phaseout of student jobs...
...Social Security benefits for every $2 he earns above that amount. The House voted to raise that ceiling to $4,000 in 1978, $4,500 in 1979, $5,000 in 1980, $5,500 in 1981. In 1982 it will be abolished. Democrat Al Ullman of Oregon argued against the phaseout. Allowing high-income people like doctors and lawyers to collect both their fees and Social Security benefits, said Ullman, would make the system "an annuity program instead of a retirement program." But California's Ketchum maintained that the limit "deprives society of the skills and ability of many people...