Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coal reserves in the region have dwindled from 82.6 million tons at the beginning of the strike to 43.3 million tons today. Nevertheless, an impressive 39% of the utilities' need is being supplied by non-U.M.W. mines, mostly in the West...
...more. Last week the bureau began issuing not one but two new CPls. The first new index, still focused on blue-collar workers and clerical employees, updates their spending habits through surveys of family budgets taken in 1972-73 and rigorously analyzed ever since. The second (CPI-U) reflects the new spending patterns not just of wage earners but of "all urban consumers," including, for example, retired people and self-employed professionals; it is supposed to reflect the way 80% of Americans spend their money...
...standing-room-only crowd expected at the Boston Garden, tonight's Beanpot finale against Boston University will be more than the knock-down stick-in-the-face episodes we've come to know over the past decade--if anything more than the intensity of a Harvard-B.U. game is possible...
Epstein still refuses to draw flat conclusions. Yet he weaves a skein of circumstantial evidence suggesting that Oswald learned key performance data on the CIA's U-2 plane while serving as a Marine radar controller at Atsugi, Japan, in 1957, and that he provided information to the Soviets either then or upon his defection to Russia in 1959. Oswald's information, the book suggests, enabled the Soviets to redesign their rocket-guidance systems so as to knock CIA Pilot Gary Powers out of the air over the Soviet Union...
Oswald's Marine specialty, radar controller, required above-average intelligence, and he ranked seventh in his training class in Biloxi, Miss. From visual, radio and radar observation at Atsugi, one base from which the U-2 operated, Oswald could have learned much about its speed, rate of climb and altitude...