Word: babbitts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nuclear czar appointed by the President. This recommendation set off a sharp debate. NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford contended that a single administrator would do nothing to improve the Government's regulation of nukes. Said he: "This is not a meat-inspection program." Replied Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, a Kemeny commission member: "The NRC is a headless agency that lacks the direction and vitality needed to police the nuclear power industry on a day-to-day basis...
...commission urges that the federal licenses for utilities to operate nuclear plants be periodically reviewed-and suspended if public hearings show that the plants have been running unsafely. Currently, they are licensed for their expected lifetime, generally 40 years, with no review at all. Explains Arizona Governor Bruce E. Babbitt, a commission member who supports nuclear power...
Though he has given her no encouragement whatsoever, his own secretary is pathetically in love with him. His stepfather Pete, a fat Babbitt, has a whining neurotic on his hands in Charles' awful mother. His sister is happily in love but cannot see that her health-nut boyfriend is an ass. His jobless roommate Sam, on the other hand, is not in love, has all of the girls and sex he wants, and seems both clearheaded and blissful...
Across the street, at the home of Shakespearean scholar Harry Levin, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, no one answered the door. Only a small bowl of treats stood outside. As Macbeth said. "This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good...
...Babbitt-the state's former attorney general who stumbled into the governorship under a provision of the state constitution last year after Governor Raul Castro took an ambassador's post and his successor, State Secretary Wesley Bolin, died in office-shrugged off the company's reaction. Said Babbitt, who has since won election in his own right: "There is an extremely serious situation down there, and the management of that company has proven its inability to take care of the situation...