Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of that uranium is to come from the Navajo Nation, where TVA is now beginning a joint project with United Nuclear Corporation and Mobil Oil Company. The project is slated for the eastern region of the Navajo Nation, and faces stiff opposition, for understandable reasons. The company promises that the activity will bring a boom-town economy to the area. But the extraction of the highly radioactive uranium promises the release of low radiation from the ground. TVA's uranium mines will be in operation only 20 to 30 years, while the radiation will stay in the local environment...
...were staging wildcat walkouts, even though Britain otherwise was supposed to be enjoying a week of relative labor peace. That erstwhile peace had been purchased at a whopping price. Some 80,000 truck drivers, whose four-week strike had dealt a crippling blow to trade and industry, were voting region by region to return to work. Well they might, since they had won a 21% pay increase for the year, hardly a farthing less than their initial 22.5% demand...
...their suggestions, and once the success of the programs was demonstrated the rest of the farmers clamored for assistance. Instead of imposing authority from above, the T.V.A. espoused the philosophy of decentralized administration of centralized authority. The T.V.A. is the only federal agency whose main headquarters is in the region it serves, not Washington...
...with familiar-sounding exhortations: insulate doors and windows, keep down temperatures in apartments, try not to use scarce gas for cooking and hot-water bathing. As if surprised, the Armenian party paper Kommunist declared: "A fuel crisis is a serious, disastrous occurrence, even on the scale of a single region," Welcome to the 1970s...
Bassett has been able to avoid surgery entirely in some cases by resorting to a bit of electromagnetic prestidigitation. He attaches a set of electrical coils, like those in a small motor, on the outside of the cast directly around the region of the break. In that way he is able to induce an electrical current within the bone. The treatment requires only a 10-volt portable powerpack, can be operated by the patient at home, and is continued for about the same two to four months as Brighton's method...