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...late, anyway, to head off a game of NIMBY (not in my backyard) between Romer and Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus. Though Government inspectors closed much of the Rocky Flats plant in October because of severe safety violations, enough of it remains running to produce nearly a boxcar load of hazardous waste a week. Until mid-October those boxcars were sent to the National Engineering Laboratory in Idaho for "temporary" storage. But when it became clear that WIPP would not open on schedule, Governor Andrus sent one of the boxcars back to Colorado. There, outside the plant, it still sits, near...
...urge the school to do what is possible with their limited resources. In all honesty, however, Kennedy School parents and supporters will continue to look curiously at the new building being constructed in our backyard and wonder where the School's commitment to affirmative action and improving the status of women and minorities really ranks among its other obvious priorities. Patty Spengler Member, Child Care Policy Group Kennedy School of Government
...Overseers--as the voice of alumni--to vote on new Corporation candidates. Forums can also be held to measure the attitudes of the other members of the Harvard community. If the University is truly to live up to its principles, it can bring about democracy in its own backyard by opening up its governance process to the numerous group that make up Harvard...
...seen Jason that night, I would not have forgotten him. But I would not have imagined that he had grown up, stopped playing football games in his backyard, gone to college, just as I had done. It would have simply been part of a past, childhood--remembered at times fondly, at other times...
...Question 4 fails, we will continue to have a factory of toxic waste festering in our backyard. A "Yes" vote on this binding referendum would close Massachusetts' notorious Pilgrim and Yankee Rowe plants, two of the most dangerous nuclear power plants in the country. Pilgrim is simply referred to by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as the worst-run nuclear plant in the country; Rowe is the oldest in the country and called by the Union of Concerned Scientist one of the five most likely plants to have a serious nuclear accident...