Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Notre Dame. "Don't call it a fetish. Call it a passion," he says, though either description may fit. An early childhood in Indianapolis --with a diehard Irish fan for a father--served as the catalyst, and his devotion survived a move that might have left an average fan with split sympathies...
With the tremendous backlog of nuclear wastes and the irreperable health damage already caused by the exposure of plant workers and the general public to increasing radiation levels, we can no longer afford to leave our lives in the hands of the politicians and giant corporations. When we call for shutdowns, we get slowdowns; when we demand a phaseout they will give us some kind of moratorium. The government is trying to make nukes safe so they can continue to operate--but nukes are inherently dangerous, and we will be satisfied with nothing less than an immediate shutdown...
...call for immediate shutdown of all nukes is not a naive fantasy. It is entirely feasible. Earlier this summer, fully one-third of all the nation's nuclear plants were shut down due to minor accidents, regulatory procedures and routine maintenance and refueling. There were no electricity shortages, no brown-outs. With nukes providing less than four percent of U.S. electricity (itself only a fraction of total energy needs), with 30 to 50 per cent of our energy being wasted, with a huge excess electrical generating capacity on the part of the utilities, even a modest program of energy efficiency...
...stuck. I have to call this film beautiful. There is no other word for it that isn't equally overused. It was magnificent, stupendous, moving, and had a profound effect on my soul. It was sensitive. And it makes me think perhaps I may have been overly sensitive about sensitive, beautiful films. Maybe I shouldn't have avoided so many of them. Then again, maybe this one was a rare act of genius...
They added, however, that Carter's renewed call for ratification was politically sound...