Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said two future shuttle missions were to use plutonium-powered generators. NASA estimates there is only one chance in 100,000 of a breach in the material holding the plutonium and that a breach would have minimal effect on public health, the Globe said...
...leave Safran virtually alone among American Middle East specialists, and make him possibly the only Harvard Middle East scholar to accept CIA funding in two decades. CIA funding for Middle Eastern studies is problematic at best; but the professor took a possible problem and made it into a certain breach of ethics by attempting to cover up his actions...
...same time, the Aquino family put out the word that their candidate would pursue her own campaign. Although the breach seemed bitter, insiders cautioned that anything, including a reconciliation, was possible before Dec. 21, when the tickets must be officially declared. After all, they noted, both Laurel and Aquino know that without a unified opposition ticket, the anti- Marcos vote will be split and the chances of defeating the President will be reduced virtually to zero...
...Prince, who has recently been depicted as something of a royal layabout, has actually been making clandestine visits to the homeless of London and seeking advice on how to remedy inner-city decay. Critics of the government applauded, while Conservatives gave indignant speeches protesting what they saw as a breach of the taboo against royalty dabbling in politics...
...disaster. He insisted that the mayor had approved key elements of police contingency plans, including the use of explosives, well in advance. That claim was strongly supported by Police Commissioner Sambor. Said Sambor: "I told the mayor that the insertion teams were going to use explosive charges to breach the walls so * they could insert gas through the holes...