Word: prospecting
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...plentiful. For motorists, the Pacific Lighting system has not solved a key problem: the bulky gas cylinders require most of a car's trunk space. The $300 charge for converting a car to natural gas is also likely,to deter all but ardent conservationists.'Still, the prospect of greater operating economy could attract fleet owners, start mass production, and eventually lower the conversion charge. If all U.S. vehicles ran on natural gas, its advocates claim, smog could be reduced by as much...
...Such a prospect should have been foreseen before eight of the Green Berets stationed in Viet Nam, including the Special Forces commander, Colonel Robert Rheault, were arrested last July. Certainly, when they were charged with the murder of Chuyen, the devastating public consequences were clear. Yet it took intense pressure by Congressmen from both parties to get the charges dropped. The most influential was South Carolina Democrat Mendel Rivers, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. As a longtime defender of military appropriations, he has a major say on military matters. Rivers summoned Secretary Resor, argued that the Army...
...tenth anniversary, China seemed well on its way to becoming a world power. Now that prospect is remote. To be sure, the indexes of improvement over 1949 are impressive (see chart opposite). China has emerged as a formidable Asian power, a member of the nuclear club,* and an ideological challenger of the Soviet Union. But it also remains economically backward, militarily weak, politically divided and alienated from much of the world...
These kids were so excited about the prospect of working out their own destiny as a group, instead of having it all done for them as it had been by their parents and high school teachers, that they couldn't even go to sleep. "That meeting was like a mystical transition," says
Proposals for a four-day working week have a familiar ring, but last week shorter hours for the same pay became a more likely prospect for the 1970s. I. W. Abel, president of the United Steelworkers of America, served notice that the shorter week will top the list of his union's demands in 1971 contract negotiations. The 32-hour week, he said, would create more jobs and improve productivity by reducing fatigue...