Word: slopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make the probability of its occurring infinitesimal. Nuclear reactors are enclosed in reinforced-concrete "containment vessels" capable of withstanding tremendous pressures from within. All reactors are equipped with automatic shut-off and multiple back-up systems so that any "loss of coolant" that could start a system on the slope toward a meltdown can be quickly corrected. The NRC maintains resident inspectors at many plants, makes unannounced inspections of others and, as last week's action demonstrates, is willing to shut down a plant for as long as necessary if there is even the slightest question of safety...
...project would have enabled Alaskan production, presently set at 1.2 million bbl., daily, to increase to a full 1.6 million bbl., and thus help reduce dependence on foreign oil. Without the pipeline, it would be difficult to raise the North Slope output: the West Coast is already overflowing with Alaskan crude, and Sohio is having to ship some 350,000 bbls. a day of it via tanker through the Panama Canal, a process that adds up to $1 per bbl. to the cost. What is more, oil companies are barred from exporting Alaskan oil, even if the purpose...
Carter and his principal aides are struggling for some sound footing on the slippery slope they have helped to grease. Vice President Walter Mondale just a few days ago, talking to visiting editors, was condemning earlier U.S. covert operations in Chile. These "efforts to manipulate the internal affairs of another society," he suggested, would shame us for a generation. Parson's son that he is, Mondale in his fervor implied that the Administration felt that representing U.S. interests in such fashion was sinful, a position that shows some misunderstanding of what actually went on in Chile...
Racing down a powdered slope may be thrilling, but when those fast-waxed bottoms leave the ground you enter another world. Last weekend in Vermont New England's top collegiate jumpers demonstrated their graceful aerobatics at Middlebury College's 55 meter hill. DAVE RAND [top left and top right], Harvard's Nordic ski captain, flew to one of his best performances of the year. CHRIS AXELSON of Middlebury breaks out of the gate [left] and rushes towards ground zero [above]. A pensive face [right] precedes the jump, but once you've started, there's no turning back...
...chairman of Atlantic, Anderson engineered the 1966 merger of Atlantic and Richfield. Four years later he had developed ARCO into the eighth largest oil concern and ARCO owned one of the largest claims to the Alaska North Slope Field...