Word: solider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's total capacity to 2,400 tons a year. Officials insist that the program will not turn France into an international nuclear trash heap. The French plants will dispose of light radioactive and liquid wastes in containers buried either at sea or underground. But the more potent solid radioactive garbage will be shipped back to the countries that produced it. As for the plutonium produced from the waste, it will legally belong to the country that owns the fuel; whether the plutonium is also returned depends on international treaties yet to be worked...
...reported that retail sales, excluding autos, were 12% higher than a year earlier in the four weeks ending on Christmas Eve; in the final week the gain was 16%. Even when a rise of about 6% in retail prices between the two Christmases is discounted, the sales gains are solid-and the buying momentum continued into last week as postholiday sales began. At 8 a.m. Monday, the day after Christmas, shoppers began lining up outside a Bullock's department store in Los Angeles in a drenching rain, waiting for the doors to open...
...technology does not always keep pace with ambition. Monsanto, after successfully experimenting with a small-scale advanced system that burned solid waste with very little oxygen to produce synthetic oil or gas, set up a recovery plant in Baltimore. Under the larger-scale operating conditions, snarls developed in the conveyor belt that fed trash into the kiln. That, among other technical problems, led Monsanto to give up, but the city of Baltimore continues to work on the plant, hoping to make it succeed. The cost of building garbage-processing plants is high too; Raytheon is spending $50 million...
...integral calculus problems at age four, is said to tip the mental scales at 210, worth a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records. Even Yankee Slugger Reggie Jackson brags as much about his IQ (he claims a 160) as his B.A. (his 1977 batting average was a solid...
When Yale Provost Hanna Holborn Gray was named acting president of the university last May, she became a strong candidate to succeed Kingman Brewster. Before being named U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Brewster himself had followed that very route, vaulting from provost to president. Gray's credentials, moreover, were solid. As provost she was Yale's first top-ranked woman administrator. Before that she served as one of the university's first two women trustees. But last week Hanna Gray, 47, took herself out of the tight competition for the top job at Yale in a most positive...