Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taps, they resulted in one official's being shifted from a sensitive Pentagon post and the transfer of another out of the State Department. The FBI taps on reporters continued at Mitchell's direction through much of 1970 and 1971, as Nixon became angry about press disclosures of American U-2 spy flights over China...
...three men made a U-turn, sped down Mass Ave. in the wrong direction, and the chase...
...Tanaka government was not only embarrassed by the cancellation but fearful that it might be interpreted in Washington as an anti-U.S. snub. Though the episode did cloud Nixon's hopes of paying a visit to Japan in 1974, the Administration saw the unfortunate affair as merely the latest indication of the Tanaka government's slipping ability to govern...
...becoming increasingly difficult to mine and process economically. To avoid a uranium "crunch," President Nixon has ordered development by the 1980s of a new type of reactor called the fast-breeder, a name derived from its unique capability: during the chain reaction, surplus neutrons from the atoms of U-235 in its core bombard a surrounding blanket of U-238, a much more plentiful but nonfissionable form of uranium, and transmute large amounts of it into plutonium. This fissionable byproduct can then be used as a fuel in other breeders. Thus breeders should be able to stretch existing uranium supplies...
Farm workers are not covered by the National Labor Relations Act, and Chavez does not especially want them to be, because that act forbids secondary boycotts-such as one directed against all the products of a supermarket that stocks non-U.F.W. grapes...