Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie, The China Syndrome, the latest in a long series of nuclear-related miscues received an inordinate share of media attention. Three Mile Island was the symbol of all that was wrong (or could go wrong) with a nuclear reactor: the anti-nuclear activists couldn't have staged a better dramatization of their fears...
...nuclear power source. The bottom line, though, is an issue everyone has skirted--probably because it is so painful. Nuclear fuel, like all power sources, poses some danger to the public. When we get a clearer picture of the true hazards of the atomic industry, we will be better equipped to evaluate the potential consequences. Nuclear power will have become a cost-benefit proposition, which will require us to question the relative importance of our cars, our appliances and our health. It will be a time of tremendous national introspection. Such self-inspection may mean a redefinition of national goals...
...handed to them by an inept Boston College squad. The Eagle infield, which should team up with the "Three Stooges" outfield of MIT to form the utter defensive horror show, made three of the team's four errors and pushed across five unearned runs, better known as the margin of victory...
According to Berman similar reasoning explains why no information has been released about the 38 courses the committee approved earlier this month. Berman explained, "Rosovsky thought it might look like we liked those courses better and the other professors might get offended." It begins to sound as though the committee is coddling sulking preschoolers, not working with distinguished adult scholars. The committee should place the Core's welfare--secured by encouraging broad discussion--above professors' tender egos...
...those the least willing to tolerate poverty are probably the ones who through their energy and motivation are the most able to help their poverty-stricken brethren. Ireland is the classic case where the able and strong abandoned a country, leaving the weak and infirm behind. True, Ireland is better off now than during the potato famines, but to attribute this to migration requires ridiculously long-run analysis. Similarly Galbraith plays down the racial hatred migrants have inspired and the dreadful standard of living--hardly better than what they left--that they are often forced to accept. Finally, while Galbraith...