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Word: woodeness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technology, big industry that must build and manage reactors, big government that must safeguard and regulate them. Part of the opposition stems from a desire to return to the supposedly simpler good old days, in which people would do more for themselves and, as one bumper sticker suggests, SPLIT WOOD, NOT ATOMS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Irrational Fight Against Nuclear Power | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...types are swamping Harvard SID Joe Bertagna with enquiries about freshman quarterback Ron Cuccia. The 5-9, 165-pound hot-shot has quite a rep following him from LA -- 91 TD tosses in high school. Lack of size could hurt him in the Ivies...Harvard grads Greg Stone, Chris Wood and John Brock are off to New Zealand for world rowing championships in October. Brock is the freshman heavyweight coach...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Curry Eyes Giant Catch | 9/20/1978 | See Source »

There is nothing mysterious about the buildup of atmospheric CO2. All fires, from the smoky flames of cave dwellers to the searing hearth of a modern steel plant, produce CO2. It makes no difference whether the fire is fueled by wood, coal, oil or gas. The inevitable byproduct is always dumped into what scientists sardonically call the "sewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Warming Earth? | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...increasing number of scientists maintain that the forests are being slashed and burned at a perilous rate. This is being done both to extend agriculture and, especially in the impoverished developing countries, to use the wood as a fuel. By desiccating and destroying the land, the ruthless felling of trees has still another harmful side effect: it exposes rich topsoil, or humus, and allows the escape of CO2 formerly trapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Warming Earth? | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

School Supt. Robert C. Wood had said before the vote that administrative personnel and substitutes would staff Boston classrooms this morning if teachers voted to strike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Typographer, Teacher Unions Avert Boston Strike Threats | 9/14/1978 | See Source »

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