Word: solar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will not only digest the very roots of our hellishly costly arms race, but do so with ever increasing momentum By freeing manpower from the arms industry, we will enjoy the advantage of Japan and West Germany and shift growth to such other areas as electronics, automobiles, and even solar energy. We will reduce our potentially disastrous rate of consumption of nonrenewable resources. We will drastically reduce the deficit and inflation. And according to statistics in The Obstacles to the NIEO (Laszlo, et al), we will increase the total number of jobs per $1 billion of expenditure from...
...Smiths do not regard themselves as members of an elite alternate-energy fraternity, as do many users of airtight wood stoves and expensive solar heating systems. But they are joining a new energy movement. Roughly 3 million Americans will be turning on kerosene heaters in their houses this winter. By 1985, 8 million to 10 million U.S. households are expected to own kerosene heaters to keep cold out and heating bills down. The new machines do not replace central heating but are used as space heaters to warm up just one or two rooms...
...International Astronomical Union, the organization of the world's professional astronomers. The I.A.U. not only supervises star designations but also controls the labeling of planets, moons and other heavenly bodies that traditionally bear proper names suggested by their discoverers. Thanks to an extraordinarily successful decade of solar-system exploration, the I.A.U.'s naming committees have had to work overtime. They have approved names for hundreds of topographical features-craters, mountains, plains-on 18 planets and moons, as well as for three newly discovered moons of Jupiter (Adrastea, Thebe and Metis, all intimately connected with the king of gods...
...restful and right-wing vacation for two. And end to slim pickins' for Frankie McLaughlin, Says here, he'll soon have the whole Ivies talkin'. It's Pat Ewing's opponents that'll need Christmas gifts, Enough for Bob Klitgaard, if he can heal all rifts. A solar-powered Yuletide for our bookworm Paul Tsongas Ted Kennedy gets a win margin humongous. For S. Allen Counter a foundation most firm, But for Israel's Begin an end to his term; An heir or an heiress will greet Charles and Di; We know Larry Bird will continue to fly. Graduate wishes...
Technological advances over the past few decades have created an "enormous explosion of information" about the solar system, Goody said. However, the "present financial climate in the United States" does not appear to be conducive to further research in the outer solar system, he added...