Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failings. Giscard, who detests the pomp and circumstance of Common Market summitry, has tried to set up more informal meetings; recently, he was host to the leaders of the Nine at a casual working dinner in the Elysee Palace. For his part, Schmidt wants to strip the Brussels bureaucracy of some of its power and most of its paper work...
These grim warnings closely follow reports by other scientists on the potentially disastrous effects of nitric oxides, which also strip ozone of its third atom and reduce it to ordinary oxygen. Large amounts of nitric oxides are given off by the exhausts of supersonic aircraft, and a recent M.I.T. study (TIME, Sept. 9) indicates that a fleet of 500 SSTs flying regularly in or near the ozone layer would deplete it by 12% within 25 years. In the past few months, scientists have been emphasizing the even greater menace of nuclear explosions, which generate huge amounts of nitric oxides...
...weighing factors they had not given real attention to before, such as considering women for outside sales jobs." Realizing that women's own attitudes may block their progress, Boyle and Kirkman also conduct awareness sessions among female employees. After one session at Hercules, a woman echoed the comic-strip character Pogo: "We have seen the enemy, and it is us." Should Boyle and Kirkman succeed completely in changing the male attitude toward women workers, they would put themselves out of their present business. But they are not worried; they figure it will take at least a decade for women...
...drastic program of Government action to increase energy supplies, reduce demand or both. Possibilities: production subsidies to energy firms, easing of environmental restraints on offshore drilling and strip mining, price guarantees to the developers of new energy technology, and high taxes on energy consumption...
Neither state nor federal statutes automatically strip a public official of his office after a criminal conviction. Instead he usually resigns. If he does not, he faces the impeachment process; or,' if he is a legislator, he can be expelled' by his colleagues. But when should they vote, when should a convicted official resign? After the jury pronounces its verdict or after the last appeal is exhausted? The troubles of U.S. Appeals Court Judge Otto Kerner and California's Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke have given the questions new importance...