Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the highly specific agreement, Soviet scientists will help American experts probe the air-pollution problems of St. Louis and then do the same in Leningrad. The water pollution of Lake Tahoe will be compared with that of Siberia's Lake Baikal. The capability of both nations to predict earth quakes will be tested along California's San Andreas Fault and in Tadzhikistan's Pamir Mountains. The murky waters of the Delaware and Potomac rivers will be analyzed, along with those of two Soviet rivers yet to be designated. More broadly, the general urban environmental problems...
...Philadelphia, where 13,000 teachers demanded a 34% pay raise, shorter working hours and smaller classes. In response, the school board, which already faces a $52 million deficit, proposed that 485 jobs be eliminated and that teachers accept more work and only token pay raises. Both sides predict that the strike may last as long as three months. In Detroit, on the other hand, the city's 11,000 teachers agreed that because the city is nearly bankrupt they would accept a new contract containing neither pay increases nor improvements in working conditions...
...enough people will ride the lines. BART is expected to pay its own way. (One reason for all the space-age automation was to minimize the labor costs that account for about 80% of the costs of the East Coast's deficit-ridden transit systems.) Projections for 1975 predict 200,000 riders on weekdays, or 60 million a year. This would account for 11 % of the present commuting traffic. But a telephone survey indicated that only 7% of those questioned intend to use the system once it goes into operation...
...Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken, the Dutch electronics giant, demonstrated a new video system. It consists of a device the size of a phonograph turntable, which attaches to an ordinary TV set. Instead of book-sized cassettes, it uses lightweight aluminum-coated disks that resemble long-playing records. Philips' scientists predict that the set attachment and the disks could be mass-produced within three years...
...learn more about these flare-ups-and also how to predict them-scientists have established some 45 solar observatories around the world...