Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Chilean people appear to have voted not so much for Pinochet's vision of the future as for the stability and relative prosperity of the present. Most Chileans, especially the women, who make up 56% of the electorate, still remember the critical shortages and triple-digit inflation of the Allende years. So when the sex-segregated voting booths opened last week, both men and women turned out in force, some of them nervously determined to reject Pinochet, but most willing to support him as long as the good times last. The final tally: 67.6% of voters endorsed the constitution...
...licensed-was at Peking's only car wash, where the bill came to $40. Exclaimed a Chinese intellectual on hearing the story: "I'll wash that car for half the price. If I could wash just three a month, I'd make my present salary...
...with chemicals seeped into the area on the outskirts of Niagara Falls. A total of 1,200 houses and a school had been built near the site. Alarmed by studies of damage to the residents' health, the Federal Government finally paid for the temporary evacuation of families. At present, 710 families have been declared eligible to move, and about half have left the area. Researchers are continuing to probe the residents' high incidence of cancer, birth defects and respiratory and neurological problems...
...tanks and cesspools, can be filtered fairly simply out of drinking water. But chemical contaminants are another matter. Says EPA Administrator Douglas Costle: "We are not even sure if, not to mention how, chemical contaminants can be removed. It takes sophisticated testing just to determine if there are chemicals present...
...have dropped to zero. By comparison, France, which has Europe's most ambitious nuclear program, has 16 reactors in operation, an extra 32 under construction and 13 more in planning. The Soviet Union currently generates 10% of its electricity from nuclear sources, and the present Five-Year Plan calls for construction of ten reactors a year. Pyotr Neporozhny, the Soviet Minister of Electric Power Development and Electrification, announced at the meeting that his country had recently made a major technical breakthrough toward nuclear fusion. If the Soviets could construct a successful nuclear fusion reactor, it would deliver about five...