Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next crucial phase comes in July, when the Enterprise, while aloft, will fire charges to release itself from the three pylons that hold it to the 747. The orbiter will then glide to earth to test a landing on its own. If all goes well, the Enterprise will be rocketed into space from Kennedy Space Center in 1979 (TIME, Feb. 14). It will land at Edwards, then be shuttled back to Florida atop the 747 for more launchings. Eventually the Enterprise and its successive sister ships should be able to wing their own way back to runways near their launching...
Blair proposes a tough remedy. At present, the big companies control each stage of the petroleum process: pumping, transport, refining, marketing. Blair would break them up into companies specializing in only one phase of the petroleum process. Ideally, each company would then haggle over price each time the oil changed hands and would thus unleash free-market forces that would push prices down...
PRICES of oil and gas must be set free to find their own levels in the market. Liberals on the board would phase out controls over three or four years to cushion the blow to consumers; conservatives favor more rapid decontrol. But all agree that the Federal Government must eventually remove itself from energy pricing altogether, eliminating the red tape that has engulfed the system...
Nevertheless, the repeal of the Byrd amendment could signal a new phase in the politics of southern Africa. The negotiations between Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's white-minority government and leaders of the black nationalist movement became deadlocked last month, and no one seems sure of the direction events are going to take. Smith's feelers toward moderate blacks may result in a black-white coalition if Bishop Muzorewa or Reverend Sithole accept the offers; but none of the three have control over the Zimbabwean freedom fighters, whose leaders have said repeatedly they will not accept a transition government...
...Phase Four. In July 1980 the quake is pinpointed to occur during the first week of September. By the end of August, some 60% of the area residents have left, 10% permanently. Of those remaining, many have begun eating and sleeping outdoors and avoiding older, taller buildings; school openings are postponed. A week before the quake is due, Government agencies move to trailers and other temporary facilities, well away from buildings and power lines...