Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end, after several days of public agonizing and behind-the-scenes bickering with the utility companies, the NRC reached a Solomonic decision that was face-saving for everyone. It issued a shutdown agreement, but only after the utilities "voluntarily" offered to suspend operations at the nine B & W plants, including Three Mile Island's disabled reactor. One objective was political: the beleaguered NRC wants to convince critics that it is indeed a vigilant watchdog...
...advice about Son Jack's grain-elevator business and the guest lists for approaching state dinners; then Rosalynn inevitably asks for the latest information on SALT or the Middle East. At one lunch, Rosalynn got the surprise of her life when the President revealed that just minutes earlier, agreement had been reached with China for normalization of relations, a secret she kept until the announcement the next day. A Rosalynn lunch with Jimmy helped restore tentative cuts in the budget for the elderly. She plugs for health care and limitations on hospital costs. "The President of the United States...
...likely." To avoid encouraging other such suits, I.N.A. requested that records of the case be sealed in secrecy, and U.S. District Judge George Templar agreed. But after the Kansas City Star broke the news of the settlement, Templar admitted that he had "stubbed his toe" by approving the secrecy agreement and unsealed the records...
...President, it seems to me that in this debate, at least among those who have declared themselves to be in general agreement on the question of the singularity of South African repression, that there is one lesson that overrides all the others, which is the lesson of powerlessness. I have heard, and I think it is shared by many of us, even many of us who have signed the letter, the open letter which was submitted, that there is not a great deal which we can do in an immediate sense to change the character of the South African regime...
...Development of Indian Law, the lease was finalized only after the Department of the Interior had waived 13 regulations on leasing procedure. One of the regulations would have limited lease size to 2,560 acres, while another would have cancelled the lease if Exxon did not abide by the agreement. As it stands, fences, ore drilling rigs, and other machinery are propagating all over the reservation...