Nuclear Blast Questioned And Delay Makes Sense
An injunction seeks to halt Project Rulison a 40 kiloton underground nuclear blast in Colorado to open gas fields. Critics fear environmental harm while supporters cite potential energy gains. Colorado groups urge delay pending independent hazard assessment amid calls for impartial safety review.
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Colorado
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
New Mexico
Utah
Wyoming
Kansas
Texas
Colorado Committee For Environmental Information
Monroe diary reports Petroleum Fever and blackberry mania
Middletown correspondent Tadmus recounts Monroe's summer craze over oil prospects near Warren County and a blackberry harvest rush. He notes stock hopes at $160 a share, forecasts a possible bore for stockholders, and details blackberry picking and rhubarb wine production. Stephen Curtis samples the wine.
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Monroe
Benjamin Lee
Warren County
Butler Line
Tadmus
Meeker
Grismer
Ogden Meeker
Tacmus
Skinner’s Ridge
Curtis
Journal
Montegobay Bay Weather Rules and Ursuline History Note
The excerpt describes maritime navigation rules for avoiding collisions between steamships and sailing vessels in Montego Bay Jamaica with warm year round water at 78 degrees. It also notes the Ursuline religious order founded in 1555 by Angela Merici for girl education and care of the needy and defines a refectory as a monastery dining hall and a bell used for communal meals.
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Montego Bay
Jamaica
The
Ursulines Is
Ange'a Merk
No More Cash If War Ends Says White House Study
A postwar budget study shows little of the 25 billion dollars yearly Vietnam war outlay will free for new welfare programs. Medicare education and state share plans would consume most funds, with authorizations and future spending projected higher each year.
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Washington
Daniel P. Moynihan
Congress
Nixon
Defense Department
Vietnam
California Prognosis: Reagan Popular Yet Crisis Looms
Frank Mankiewicz and Tom Braden analyze California politics as Reagan remains the state’s top figure with 33 percent popularity. They note booming prosperity, budget rebates to homeowners and corporations, education strains, and a voters' appetite for charm over policy amid looming fiscal and social tensions. Researchers compare era echoes to Adams warnings about ease and slumber in politics.
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Los Angeles
Ronald Reagan
California
Reagan
Edmund G. Brown
Nixon Pursues New Federalism to Shift Welfare Costs
The article outlines President Nixon’s New Federalism aiming to return welfare responsibilities and funds to states. It argues it blends Moynihan, Burns, and Friedman ideas, seeks work or training for adults on aid, lets fathers remain with families, and sets a $1,600 annual floor for a four person family, echoing Speenhamland-era debates about minimum income.
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Hubert Humphrey
Nixon
John Lindsay
New York
White House
Daniel P. Moynihan
Arthur Burns
Milton Friedman
Speenhamland Law and its wage effects in history
The Speenhamland system subsidized wages for the poor, encouraging employers to cut pay under the guise of stability. Britain repealed it to foster a competitive industrial labor market. Compared to Nixon era America, strong unions and minimum wage laws may limit wage cutting despite minimum income assurances.
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England
Speenhamland Times
America
Richard Nixon
Nixon
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