Word: presented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smith learned. He soon switched to the production staff as a helper. Over the next 17 years he worked up to foreman and finally supervisor. He was present as scientific knowledge of plutonium grew from infancy, and he remembers these as his golden days. Smith worked at purifying plutonium and mixing it with other elements. He changed it from liquid to powder to metal and molded it into the workings of atomic weapons. Like most Americans, but in a more immediate way, he has made concessions to the nuclear hazard. "There's no way to get that plutonium...
...Deciding the case in Los Angeles superior court, Judge Arthur K. Marshall last week provided an anticlimactic ending. He denied that Michelle had an explicit or implied contract with Lee that entitled her to a portion of his property. But then the judge gave her a going-away present. Noting that Michelle was on unemployment and that her chances of resuming her singing career were "doubtful," he awarded her $104,000 "for rehabilitation purposes . . . to reeducate herself and to learn new, employable skills...
...Anglo-American initiative has fallen apart. At present, nobody is pressing for an all-parties conference. Muzorewa and his colleagues do not want one because they expect to be running the show in Salisbury. The guerrillas do not want one because they expect to win everything through force. The result, as Mugabe once put it: "The real conference will be in the bush...
...friends for is that they support us on the same basis that they are supporting ZAPU [which gets arms from the Soviet Union]. There have been positive replies, but we have not received any material aid yet. Missiles and other sophisticated weaponry would be a good answer to the present firm dominance which the enemy enjoys, but we don't have any missiles just...
...present, there are some 439 federal agencies with jurisdiction over some part of university life. Last year 26% of Harvard's total budget (or $79 million) came from the Federal Government. Also: 50% of M.I.T.'s ($125 million), 46% of Princeton's ($66 million), 4.1% of Oberlin's ($1 million), and 17% ($81 million) of the University of Michigan's. U.S. higher education cannot survive without Government money, but whoever pays the piper often gets to call the tune. Despite the best of intentions, Government clout in academia has grown, along with the red tape necessary to comply with...