Word: breakdown
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...already had a bit of experience with gas reactors. Philadelphia Electric Co. successfully tested a 40-megawatt experimental version from 1967 to 1974. However, the Fort St. Vrain plant, 35 miles north of Denver, has had one breakdown after another during the decade since it began operation. But Lidsky points out that the plant is so big -- 330 megawatts -- that it needs as complex a cooling system as conventional plants. The reactor's large size, he says, has caused most of the trouble...
...York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who 20 years ago presciently warned of the breakdown of the black ghetto family, rejected the idea that Democratic programs should be blamed for creating a dependency on Government, which aggravated the underclass crisis. "It has become a belief bordering on prejudice," he said, "that the social ills of the present are the consequence of misguided Democratic social policies of the past two generations. None hold to this belief more guiltily, if furtively, than the Democrats." His party, Moynihan observed, is in "worse shape nationally than since the aftermath of the Civil War." He urged...
...NASA ready to resume its inescapably risky role? The Rogers commission report is not likely to revive public confidence in the agency. The expected tone was indicated by one commission member, who told TIME, "The system suffered a breakdown under the people in charge." Confronted with tighter budgets and more demands, he said, "they skimped and made do in the wrong places--and that includes launch safety." Indeed, Tennessee Senator Albert Gore released a study showing that NASA had trimmed 70% of its safety and quality-control staff in recent years...
Although College officials would not provide a numerical breakdown of guests invited because of their donations, they did agree that past giving to the University's treasure chest had something to do with their fancy invites. And for those graduate schools that provided figures, spokesmen say that a sizable number of the representatives are there because of past giving...
...other times in our lives are we allowedthe luxury of extended self-absorption. One can domost anything here as long as one is smart enoughto put it all together during the two to threeweeks of each term known as reading and examperiods. One can have a nervous breakdown, descendinto a cycle of mindless sex and drugs, partyevery night all night, and engage in any number ofdeviant activities...