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Word: siting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...symbol of the nuclear power plant; to those who had come to protest it, it represented all that was evil about nukes. Though no protesters would actually reach the reactor building that Sunday afternoon (and only one tried), it was visible throughout the 850-sq.-acre enclosed construction site, its presence felt...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Welcome to Shoreham | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

...that drives the Teamsters, the trucking industry and various politicians and lobbyists right up the wall-all for different reasons." Atlanta's Marc Levinson found himself being driven right up the wall by the independent truckers for another reason. He was twice given wrong directions to a picketing site by truckers who, he concluded, "didn't know where they were striking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 2, 1979 | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...developing "clean" atomic bombs, which produced very little fallout. But citing the military's desire for some degree of off-site radiation for troop-training purposes, the AEC agreed not to limit such fallout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rediscovering the Past | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...Leonid Brezhnev sat down in Vienna last week for a 90-minute private session, with only their interpreters present, one of the most sensitive issues between them concerned Turkey. The U.S. wants to send U-2 spy planes into Turkish airspace to monitor missile tests from the Tyuratam launch site in Kazakhstan, about a thousand miles inside the U.S.S.R. To verify Soviet compliance with the missile modernization provisions of SALT II, American intelligence must be able to get as close as possible to launches from Tyuratam. Before the fall of the Shah, the U.S. relied largely on nearby listening posts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Delicate Relationship | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...midst of this dark period. One sign of kinship: two skeletons bore rings of identical design. Sarianidi's theory is that a family patriarch stumbled upon the long buried temple and appropriated it as a royal necropolis. For 200 years successive generations were apparently buried at the unmarked site, probably by night to outwit grave robbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Golden Nobles of Shibarghan | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

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