Word: uranium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...South African government and U.S. State Department, some money is more important than other money. Foreign policy, now, as always, is not conducted for humanitarian reasons, but for reasons of power and finances. South Africans' white supremacy used to be based on diamonds and gold. Today it is uranium, converted into plutonium and then nuclear weapons, that most strengthens minority rule. Harvard's holdings in uranium companies represent a $100-million investment in South Africa's nuclearization...
...MORTON is a soft spoken South African exile. Like many other white South African men, he has refused conscription in what he considered to be an immoral war--white against black. To Morton, the question is one of power. That power comes and begins with uranium. South Africa has a plentiful supply of uranium, as well as its own enrichment plants, and can produce all the weapons-grade material that it wants. It also has weapons and delivery systems to launch strikes into any part of Africa that it chooses. When the inevitable showdown in Southern Africa finally arrives...
...lifelong critic of military force, Urey was an innovative researcher in a wide range of scientific fields. He was considered the father of modern lunar science for his speculations about the moon's geology. During World War II his work in separating the heavy or isotope forms of uranium was a key contribution to the making of the first atomic bomb. In 1953 he and a colleague conducted an influential experiment that showed how lightning striking the primordial earth could have produced the basic chemicals of life. An inveterate political activist, Urey publicly opposed the death sentences of Convicted...
Henry began with a funny situation but no plot. So he resorted to a feeble device: the meeting of senescent civilization (the President's clan) and wily savagery (the potentates of Upper Gorm, an African nation with rich uranium deposits). When Newhart meets the Gormese, the two men cannot understand each other, which makes for five minutes of ennui. They are not the only odd couple in the film. In scene after scene, behavioral comedy attempts to engage in a dialogue with slapstick satire. But these are different comic languages, and the two forms finally fall silent in defeat...
Boomtown officials find little sympathy in Washington for their plight. Washington is providing about $50 million a year to help towns disrupted by coal and uranium mining build new sewers, water lines and schools and hospitals. Westerners claim the funds are not enough, but Administration officials blame that on Congress. "Congress is still dominated by the East," says Paul Petzrick, director of the Office of Shale Resource Applications of the Department of Energy...