Word: summers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...downs," says a U.S. official, "but it finally congealed." Moscow promised that the dissidents would soon be joined in the West by members of their immediate families. The Americans, however, failed to win the release of Anatoli Shcharansky, the leading Jewish dissident who was jailed for treason last summer. He was apparently too much of a symbol of resistance to the Soviet regime to be allowed to go free...
...Ginzburg, 42, was constantly harassed and finally imprisoned for writings critical of Communist life. He further antagonized authorities by becoming a self-appointed monitor of Moscow's compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki accord. He was brought to trial once again last summer for his role in helping political prisoners with a fund set up by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Defiant as ever, he was sentenced to eight years of hard labor...
...critics have had no doubts about what the NRC should do: they want a shutdown of all nuclear plants in the U.S. Cooler heads, however, pointed out that most of the plants have relatively good safety records. Besides, any major loss of generating capacity at the onset of the summer months-when electrical consumption soars-could cause intermittent blackouts around the country...
...compromise decision, Lee did something of an about-face. At week's end, he predicted that the "outages"-jargon for when a generator is out of the power grid-would be of "very short duration." Certainly, he said, they would not last into the peak summer season. But Harold Denton, the NRC's reactor regulations chief, was more skeptical. Something of a hero in the nuclear field for his cool troubleshooting at Three Mile Island in the wake of March's accident, he insisted that all B & W pressurized water reactors were susceptible to the kind...
During the late sixties, he was as much amused by the "flower punks" of the Summer of Love as he was by the contagious mediocrity which brought plastic furniture to the suburbs. Never one to take the world seriously, Zappa has long since moved to Montana and become a dental floss tycoon...