Word: minor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call for immediate shutdown of all nukes is not a naive fantasy. It is entirely feasible. Earlier this summer, fully one-third of all the nation's nuclear plants were shut down due to minor accidents, regulatory procedures and routine maintenance and refueling. There were no electricity shortages, no brown-outs. With nukes providing less than four percent of U.S. electricity (itself only a fraction of total energy needs), with 30 to 50 per cent of our energy being wasted, with a huge excess electrical generating capacity on the part of the utilities, even a modest program of energy efficiency...
...problem: How do you get Robert Strange McNamara away from Quincy House when 700 students are outside waiting to block his path? Nothing like this had ever happened before at Harvard. Sure, there had been minor stuff, a little picketing, a little heckling, but never this many students willing, despite warnings from the administration, to go ahead with a "disruptive demonstration" and to seek a "physical confrontation." The Students for a Democratic Society [SDS], frustrated with the Defense Secretary, was determined to personally show him what they thought of "McNamara...
...release was a minor diplomatic milestone: the four were the last U.S. citizens without any claim to dual nationality being held in Cuban prisons on political charges...
...minor diplomatic issue involving Cuba was resolved last week when Havana released four Americans from its prisons. For four years Fidel Castro had said that they would be freed if the U.S. released four Puerto Rican nationalists who were in prison for trying to assassinate President Truman and House leaders in the 1950s. Carter granted them clemency two weeks ago. Nonetheless, State Department officials denied that any deal had been made with Havana...
...delicately placed the issue of Taiwan on a subsidiary level, choosing to treat it as a relatively minor internal Chinese dispute. What concerned him was the international context ?that is, the Soviet Union. To a long disquisition by Nixon on the question of which of the nuclear superpowers, the United States or the Soviet Union, presented a greater threat, Mao replied: "At the present time, the question of aggression from the United States or aggression from China is relatively small ... You want to withdraw some of your troops back on your soil; ours do not go abroad...