Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DISPOSING OF ATOMIC WASTES. "Most of the uproar is about wastes from nuclear power plants, which really do not produce much radioactive ash. If such wastes were evaporated and solidified, the total amount created by the year 2000 could be stored in an area about the size of a football field. Our military programs produce more, and we're still seeking a publicly acceptable way of storing them, perhaps in underground caverns. There's no imminent danger...
Some of his taxes, however, are going up. In the wake of the uproar over his San Clemente property, local officials have ordered the house and grounds to be reappraised. As a result, this year his California property tax is expected to jump from...
...Naples Prefect Domenico Amari as it approached city hall, setting off three days of rioting that resulted in a dozen injuries and eight arrests. Politicians of all shades loudly began accusing one another of negligence and corruption, tossing the blame around like an infected mussel. Exhausted by the uproar, Mayor Gerardo De Michele abruptly resigned last week, taking his administration with him. In the midst of its worst crisis since World War II, Naples found itself without a municipal government...
...joined the Times in 1961, becoming women's news editor in 1965. She is known for her pithy writing style, and often tartly exposes the foibles of the jet set. Her scrapbook includes a satiric report on a meeting of high-powered feminists that was thrown into an uproar when one of the participants decided to go topless, and a story on Willie Morris' fall from the editorship of Harper's that brilliantly exposed the machinations of the publishing business and "the literary pack" in New York. When she is not working, Curtis heads to Cleveland, where...
...young people seem alike. They appeared to speak with one magisterial voice, leading sympathizers to generalize: "They have something to tell us. We should listen." On most issues, in fact, youth spoke with as many voices as any other group, but the discords were drowned out in the uproar over war and generation gap. Class, ethnic and geographical differences went largely unexamined. When kids battled cops in the '60s, it was overlooked that the cops were often the same age as the kids. Once the war wound down, the convenient abstraction, youth, began to crumble...