Word: actioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...develops from a staunch defender of nuclear power and its safety to a scandalized activist who realizes that corporate power and economic necessity have corrupted the safety procedures and inspections he holds sacred. Lemmon communicates the emotional torture that Goodell endures before he is finally forced to take action against the officials he believes will destroy his beloved plant--and with it, most of Los Angeles...
...quarreling publicly over strategy. Observes John Sawhill, who was the federal energy chief under Richard Nixon: "The U.S. could not have been less prepared for this shortage. What bothers me is to see members of Carter's own Cabinet go on TV and make veiled threats about military action in the Middle East even though we refuse to take the simple action at home that can reduce our dependence on foreign supplies...
...today than it was a year ago. Silverman more than doubled his California programming staff, adding 21 "talent" executives so quickly that the entire Hollywood press office had to move into trailers to make room for them. The trailers were immediately christened the Silverman Express. Then, in an unprecedented action last fall, Silverman dumped all seven of NBC's new shows, replacing them earlier this year with those more in his image. Most have been disasters, but none has failed quite so resoundingly as Supertrain, which cost almost $12 million just to pull out of the station...
...reau began by shifting the action from the upholstered, hypocritical fin de siècle to the 1930s, in the shadow of Nazism. to the 1930s, in the shadow of Nazism. He and Designer Richard Peduzzi placed the singers amidst stark mausoleum-like sets in monochromatic blacks and grays, all vast, sterile spaces and icy slabs of marble. The results captured the harsh, merciless qualities of the opera perhaps too well. They were undeniably powerful, particularly in the hair-raising scene in which Lulu guns down Schon on an enormous staircase. They were also brutal and at times faintly ludicrous...
...Chemical Co., a major producer, denied there was any proof that in normal agricultural use the herbicides hurt humans and promised court action to stop the ban. But the EPA said it had no choice. Explained Deputy Administrator Barbara Blum: "The warning signals from the miscarriage study, the preponderance of strong animal test data and the low short-term economic impact compel emergency action. Taken together these facts sound an alarm...