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These blows left nuclear power moribund, like a patient who needs a respirator in order to survive. Now many fear that the accident at Chernobyl could prove to be the event that pulls the plug. "We're in trouble," conceded Carl Walske, the president of the Bethesda, Md.-based Atomic Industrial Forum, the lobbying group that speaks for the industry. "Before the accident, we could visualize the resumption of orders within about five years. We are still hoping that this will occur, but we expect that there will be some negative effect from a setback like this. If the calls...
...discovery will "revise theories of everything that involves kinematic distances--measurements of brightness of stars, densities, size and mass of gas, dust, plasma, pulsars, stars, nebula, anything that's in our galaxy," said Carl Gwinn, one of the study's participants from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
Music is also at the heart of the Blue Suede Shoes Saloon in Memphis, which Carl Perkins helped start three months ago. The country-and-western singer- songwriter "wanted it to be a real rockabilly honky-tonk, and I think that's what we've got." And he wanted it to be on Beale Street, "where you could just feel the history of the place, the spirit." New Jersey Generals Quarterback (barring a rumored trade) Doug Flutie was also concerned with locale. Flutie's Pier 17,a 15,000-sq.-ft. restaurant that officially opened last week...
This strike concerns a principle of critical importance for all working women--equal pay for comparable worth. Carl Icahn, president of TWA, has attempted to justify these cuts with the myth that women deserve less pay because they are not the "primary bread winners" for their families...
...pocketed a settlement of $300 million. New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner aimed RICO against investment partners whom he charged with selling him their interests in a joint venture without informing him of all necessary facts. Dubious charges of racketeering are especially common in takeover attempts. When Corporate Raider Carl Icahn moved in on Dan River Inc. in 1982, the company tried to fend him off with a RICO suit. A business-world hardballer Icahn may be, but a racketeer? A federal appeals court refused to allow it. "RICO has a life of its own," says Illinois Federal Judge Milton...