Word: ton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...energy consumed on the new train per passenger mile is half that of automobile travel and a quarter that of air travel, according to the French. Since trains between New York and Washing ton run on electricity, they could be powered with domestic coal. Who, then, benefits from the Reagan Administration's cutbacks in Amtrak...
...Japan, where 22 facilities now generate 12% of the country's electricity, another 15 plants are set for completion by 1985. Yet a major mishap last March at a reactor in Tsuruga, where a ton of radioactive water leaked into nearby coastal waters, captured national headlines and fueled opposition to atomic power across the country. Japanese officials last year proposed dumping low-level wastes into the Pacific, but an international wave of protest quickly forced them to table the plan...
there are 200-ft.-long "fast patrol boats," destroyers, fiber-glass-and-plastic-hulled minesweepers, troop-carrying Hovercraft and even a 670-ft., 14,000-ton Vickers aircraft carrier. Nor is the infantry slighted: there are mortars (51 mm or 81 mm), silencer-equipped submachine guns, four-round sniper rifles (99% accuracy at 400 meters) and a battery-powered grenade launcher. Missiles? Try an air-to-air Sky Flash or a ship-to-air Seawolf, a Rapier ("low cost" and "low weight") or a Swingfire ("long-range" and "antitank"). Once the weapons are ordered, there are British firms that will...
...Questions", a ten-ton modern sculpture made of rusted steel was recently installed in front of the student union amid a crowd of 100 students who opposed its purchase and gathered to jeer as a crane lowered the sculpture into place. One student, trying to deface the work, broke off a piece of metal which later was welded back into place...
Simultaneously, local operatives in the Southeast China port of Swatow, the city near the planned landing, made hundreds of area photographs and closely monitored local Chinese security forces. The plan, completed last December, called for a sturdy tug to tow a partly submersible barge loaded with 232 one-ton blocks, each packed with 48 waterproof boxes containing 90 Bibles...