Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leads a minority government in an economically depressed country. In the space of three years Portugal has overthrown an entrenched dictatorship, absorbed a military-inspired revolution and narrowly escaped a Communist takeover. But affable, astute Mario Scares, 52, remains the champion player of his country's seesaw political game. Since his election as Premier a year ago last month, the Socialist leader has cleverly played off Communists against centrists, centrists against conservatives, confident that all sides have an interest in seeing his democratically elected government succeed. Otherwise, he explains, "there would be no alternative but dictatorship...
...what in the world the culprits thought they could do with their loot. The bandits had made off with newly minted, neatly packaged, bronze-colored ten-franc coins-1,770,000 of them, to be exact-that weighed 17.7 tons and would require nearly 30 cu. yds. of space merely to store. If the four bandits each spend $100 per day of their bulky loot without raising suspicion, they will be plunking down the last of their ten-franc pieces some time in the year...
While city-room veterans sometimes howl at the loss of space, the writers producing the soaps argue that they report one of the biggest stories of the '70s-the ongoing breakdown of sexual taboos. "Federal Triangle tells a lot about Washington in a way that you can't always do in news copy," says Washington Star Portfolio Editor Mary Ann Dolan. "It's great to get the characters to do things that they would do in real life but would never tell us as reporters," adds Reporter Louise Logue. So that their settings and dialogues will...
...good year will provide at least a bit of breathing space for the manufacturers, who soon will be hit by costly new federal energy-saving regulations. A Federal Energy Administration study shows that air conditioners account for 7% of the electricity used in the U.S. The FEA estimates that air conditioning uses up the equivalent of 1 million bbl. per day of oil, or 2.5% of the U.S.'s daily energy consumption. More than 70% of all new homes built in the U.S. now have central air conditioning, and 53% of all older homes have at least one room...
...going north for better paying jobs. In 1959 a group of public-spirited North Carolinians came up with a solution: a "research park." Modeled after industrial parks-scientific companies were sought as tenants, rather than manufacturers-research centers flourished in the early '60s on the edges of the space race. But by 1965 many were faltering or had already failed, victims of an economic recession and a switch in priorities in Washington from hardware to social problems...