Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"It sounded like an explosion," said Werner Prudent, who was working at the Seattle's Best Coffee stand at the time of the accident.
"I believe in nuclear power," he says, "but after seeing the NRC in action, I'm convinced a serious accident is not just likely but inevitable. This is a dangerous road. They're asleep at the wheel. And I'm road-kill."
The NRC insists that the chance of such an accident is infinitesimal. But the agency's risk-assessment methods have been called overly optimistic by activists, engineers and at least one NRC commissioner. The agency's analysis for a fuel-pool drainage accident assumes that at most one-third of...
His chief health-care idea is Medical Savings Accounts, which unsurprisingly bestow new rewards on those whose good health might well be termed an accident of birth. His plan would push people toward catastrophic-protection insurance polices with very high deductibles--say, $3,000. Medical bills up to this amount...
For the first time in two weeks, the first line of seniors Tommy Holmes, captain Brad Konik and Kirk Nielsen put their injuries behind them and were once again on the ice as a unit. Also, senior defenseman Peter McLaughlin, along with Konik, played for the first time since sustaining...