Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...willing, even eager, to cooperate. "This country has a surprising effect on everyone today," he says. "Our office is more like a firehouse than a bureau, with some 50 incoming calls daily. The whole country wants to talk. It is as if everyone has been put on a think-tank-a-day alert on South Africa's future." McWhirter interviewed Minister of Justice James Kruger on the Stephen Biko affair, and has met with Afrikaner students, Boer families, colored leaders and young black militants. "One disheartening thing that has happened in the past few months," he says...
...Reform Group, which serves as a think tank for progressive tax reform and lobbies both the Administration and Congress...
...defy fate itself. In 1916, for instance, Houdini narrowly escaped from a box buried six ft. underground. (Once free, he had to dig his way to the surface.) Another of his death-defying tricks was the Chinese Water Torture Cell: padlocked by the ankles in a glass-fronted water tank, Houdini hung upside down, but would make his escape within harrowing minutes. (He did not die doing this stunt, despite the efforts of Hollywood producers to make people think...
Workmen, using remote-control cutting torches and closed-circuit television, are slicing up the reactor a piece at a time. The slabs are then hoisted by a crane into an 8,000-gal. water tank, and will eventually be transported in sealed containers to a burial site in the Nevada desert. The task will take another year to complete and will cost about $8 million. To pull down an average-size commercial reactor today could conceivably cost as much as $100 million, and that cost is likely to soar in the years ahead...
...Japan are also struggling with the nuclear-waste problem and have yet to devise a way to resolve the issue. In Britain, for example, a reprocessing facility at Windscale on the Irish Sea is now the focus of a highly publicized government inquiry, following a still unexplained storage-tank leak last March. France's La Hague reprocessing plant has been a center of controversy almost from the time it was built in 1961. Critics charge that the aging plant is a catastrophe waiting to happen. Many areas of the plant that were once serviceable have become so radioactive that...