Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Possibly the most tired of all was Bazargan, but the 71-year-old Prime Minister showed little sign of exhaustion as he hosted a huge bar-e-aam (public reception) at Tehran's modern concrete-and-steel sports arena to mark the new year. In a simple, direct talk, Bazargan touched on some of the issues facing his government. He assured the crowd of 10,000 that the rights of all the people of Iran, including women and religious minorities, will be preserved in the new constitution for an Islamic republic. But he also said that neither...
Monnet never abandoned his dream of achieving, step by careful step, a united Europe freed at last from the confrontations of past centuries. In 1950 he sold French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman on the idea of the European Coal and Steel Community, as a way to defuse ancient Franco-German rivalries. Two years later, the Community was in operation, with Monnet as its president. That successful effort paved the way for the creation of the Common Market, established by the Treaty of Rome...
Monnet resigned as head of the Coal and Steel Community in 1955 and founded the Action Committee for the United States of Europe. Although high office was his for the asking, he preferred to be a backstage lobbyist for his dream of a united Europe, whispering into the ears of Presidents and Premiers, nudging them toward his vision. "The world is divided into those who want to become someone and those who want to accomplish something," he liked to say. He would add that "there is less competition" in the second category, to which he so clearly belonged...
...nuclear plants safe? The answer depends on the definition of "safe." If it means accident-proof, then the answer, as applied to anything from a bicycle to a steel mill, is no. A nuclear plant cannot blow up like an atomic bomb. A plant could, however, suffer a "meltdown" if it loses the water used to cool its uranium core, overheats, ruptures the core's container and releases a deadly cloud of radioactive gases. In the event of such an accident, people close to the plant would die quickly, while others, living as far as a couple of hundred...
...Clarinetist Harold Wright signed his name to a paper and then said, "My God, that's a passport." The Boston players were full of admiration for the students' ability, but shocked by their equipment. Most instruments are either bad or terrible. Strings on violins and cellos are steel-cheap, durable, but incapable, as Ozawa says, of making "a mild tone." The conservatory library is sparse and quirky. If the Chinese were brilliant and intense in their execution, they were also rigid. Said one Boston player, "They have been so isolated for so long. They have no concept...