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There is, and always has been, a potential for terrorist attacks against the nuclear industry. While hefty reactor shielding mitigates the danger of an attack, a breech could release deadly levels of radioactivity to plant employees and those nearby. But the problem is the existence of terrorism, not of nuclear power. Equal or greater dangers are posed by attacks on large dams, poisoning open-air watersheds or attacking our society’s vulnerable dependence on computer, electricity, and phone networks. To be free from terrorism, we would have to sacrifice modernity itself...
...pursuit of those ambitious objectives, however, not every offsite is worth a company's time and money. It's useless "to put employees out in some wilderness area and say, 'Well, no one got eaten by a bear,'" says Tom Zimmerer, director of the Breech School of Business Administration at Drury College in Springfield, Mo. The formula for a good offsite is much more complicated and practical than that. Consider the following examples...
...from one of the leading purveyors of research papers-which was named in the suit-who spoke under the condition of anonymity, claimed that his company is not in violation of any law, and that B.U.'s attempt to censor its material in the state of Massachusetts is a breech of its First Amendment rights...
...serves as a member of Hong Kong's elected Legislative Council--the territory's primary legislative body--and is a prominent critic of China's recent hard-line policies that breech agreements in the Joint Declaration of 1984. That document, signed by Great Britain and China, outlines the "one country, two systems" form of government which the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping envisioned for the territory...
...finding is relatively easy; Ray Murdock (James Earl Jones) is a policeman in Chicago. Making peace is another matter; Ray knows how his mother died, was in fact present on that terrible night. Forgiving the white man who seduced her and the half brother whose breech birth killed her is not in his heart. Ray has hidden his long-denied anger beneath a smoothly affable manner. Earl is hiding his more recent astonishment under stony taciturnity. But big-city circumstances force him to take refuge in Ray's home, where his blind, wise, straight-talking aunt (Irma P. Hall) maneuvers...