Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original fuel (fissionable uranium 235, or plutonium) is surrounded by a "blanket" of nonfissionable uranium 238, which absorbs neutrons from the chain reaction in the core. These neutrons transmute the U-238 in the blanket into plutonium, which can fuel another breeder...
...cost of the mission may run as high as $300 million for the U.S., but that is lower than the price tag for an all-U.S. venture of the same magnitude. The mission will also provide indirect benefits for the U.S. space program. With only one more lunar landing and three Skylab missions scheduled, NASA has been desperately looking for new manned space enterprises that will be popular with the public-and earn financial support from Congress. Thus by agreeing to join with their erstwhile rivals in a flight that is bound to stir the imaginations of both...
...major appointments Bok has made reflect a penchant for administrative ability rather than specific experience. Several, including Hale Champion, vice president for Finances; Charles U. Daly, vice president for Government and Community Affairs: and Paul Ylvisaker, the new dean of the School of Education, have had successes outside of education greater than or equal to their accomplishments in academic posts...
...least that's the impression given by Charles U. Daly, vice president for Government and Community Affairs, and Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, at a Harvard-sponsored conference on Chicano and Boricua (Puerto Rican) studies last weekend...
...casualties were certain to increase still more with the opening of a third front in the Central Highlands. There, the Communists had waited until Saigon pulled a seasoned airborne brigade out of the Kontum area and dispatched it to the hard-pressed provinces near the capital. That left a U-shaped string of firebases on the ridges overlooking the eerily quiet approaches to Kontum and along the Poko River Valley largely in the hands of one of ARVN'S weaker divisions, the 22nd...