Word: supers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longshoremen cannot be blamed for any of the worst problems, which are long-term and seem almost insoluble. The St. Lawrence Seaway has become virtually obsolete. Its locks are too small to let through the "super" ships (27-ft. draft or more) that move cargo most efficiently these days...
...element No. 106 was announced last week by a Berkeley team led by Physicist Albert Ghiorso and Chemist Glenn Seaborg, the former Atomic Energy Commission chairman who won a Nobel Prize for synthesizing element No. 94 (plutonium). The Berkeley scientists used a newly beefed-up particle accelerator called Super-HILAC (for heavy ion linear accelerator) to send nuclei of oxygen atoms barreling into another artificial element, californium. As occasional collisions occurred between the oxygen and californium nuclei, they fused and formed the heavier nucleus of element 106-but not for long. Like most artificial elements, No. 106 is extremely unstable...
Since that day in mid-March, Kinshasa has been agog. Though initial predictions that 30,000 foreign visitors would descend on the ill-equipped capital have proved far too optimistic, fight preparations are still elaborate. Thousands of precooked frozen meals have been flown in. As le super combat approaches in the former Belgian Congo, the weed-infested median along Kinshasa's main boulevard has suddenly blossomed with flowers; new street lights have been installed and virtually every building in town has been scrubbed or painted...
...best places for all-out grocery shopping are Broadway Super Market (468 Broadway St.), Johnnie's Foodmaster (730 Broadway in Somerville) and Star Market (in Porter Sq. and on Beacon St.). Broadway Super Market is the closest and the smallest of the three. Johnnie's is farther away, but has some excellent sale prices on specified items each week. Star Market is open until midnight, provides a very convenient check cashing service and has the best prices...
...another withdrawal to cover some of the cost of an operation later this year. "I'm mad about inflation," says Seid man, "and I know I must fight back." He has joined an organization called Fight Inflation Together, which has sponsored boycotts of meat and milk and picketed super markets to protest high prices...