Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anybody else. Jordan admits he is a poor administrator. He would prefer to be a free agent, looking ahead down the political road. "I'm no good at advising on details of a program," he insists. "What I'm good at is conceptualizing the process by which goals are met. I have to have time to think and plan and not get bogged down in management of a staff. I look for good people and give them autonomy to do their jobs." Though Jordan protests-perhaps too much-that he is not an "issues man," he is getting...
...mere doorkeepers like Kenneth O'Donnell and Marvin Watson. Even in this semi-exalted position, however, hubris remains a problem for the pair: they have gained so much power so soon. It could turn the heads of people twice their age. Another problem is that in the process of growing up politically at the White House, Jordan and Powell are bound to make mistakes-and at a high level...
Energy in limitless supply from a universally available fuel. Energy created by a process that is relatively harmless to the environment and leaves behind no byproduct that can be converted into dangerous weapons. To a world facing the long, frigid night of fuel shortages, it seems like a glorious dream. That dream may be somewhat closer to reality than most people realize. In laboratories in the U.S., the Soviet Union, Western Europe and Japan, scientists are involved in a spirited competition to become the first to achieve one of the most important-and difficult-goals ever sought...
...energy from nuclear fission is relatively simple. In fission-which occurs in A-bomb explosions and powers today's nuclear plants-a speeding neutron is used to split the atomic nucleus of a heavy element like uranium into the nuclei of one or more lighter elements. In the process, more neutrons are given off. But the mass of the resulting nuclei and neutrons is somewhat less than the mass of the original nucleus; the missing matter-as predicted by the famed Einstein equation E=mc2-has been converted into energy. Basically, all that is required for fission...
...nuclear fusion-the process that feeds the fires of the sun and gives the H-bomb its awesome power-atomic nuclei of light elements like hydrogen collide and merge. The resulting nuclear particles contain less mass than the sum of the original nuclei; again, matter has been converted into energy. But while atomic nuclei easily split, they do not easily fuse; they have positive electric charges and thus repel each other, acting as if they had invisible springs between them. Getting them to join requires that they approach each other with enough energy to overcome their natural repulsion and smash...