Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of secrecy compounded by confusion and some startling ignorance was dramatized by the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant crisis. While the event made plain that Government and corporate experts had not quite leveled with the public about the hazards of nuclear power, it also proved, frighteningly enough, that the experts sometimes did not tell the whole story simply because they did not know it. Joseph M. Hendrie, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said of himself and other officials, as they tried to cope with an incipient meltdown: "We are operating . . . like a couple of blind men staggering...
...House Interior Committee approved the same proposals after a House committee voted Wednesday to impose a temporary moratorium on nuclear plant construction...
...juche (pronounced joo-chay), which roughly translated is "mastery of one's destiny." Applied nationally, it means that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea must be utterly self-reliant. Everything, in fact -from trucks and locomotives to scissors and machine tools-is homemade. A plant manager is apt to boast that no foreigner has ever been involved in his operation. "The quality might not be too perfect," one official admitted about consumer goods, "but they are good enough for us because we made them ourselves...
...Tang Pei-sung, a onetime doctoral fellow in botany and plant physiology, leaned back on the couch in the hotel lobby and took a sip of his bourbon and Seven-up. "I'm so pleased to come back to the United States," the director of the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, half-said and half-sighed...
Specialists from the delegation--co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Botanical Society of America--plan to exchange views and research findings with Harvard scientists in fields from paleontology and geology to plant physiology...