Word: chapman
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Since 1979, fundamentalists have inexorably gained power in the biggest and richest U.S. Protestant denomination, the 15 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. Last year the rightward tilt was affirmed when fundamentalist Morris Chapman of Texas was elected president over Georgia's Daniel Vestal, leader of the moderates. Fundamentalists (who prefer to be called conservatives) have since piled pressure on Baptist seminaries to teach the literal historical accuracy of the Bible. They have also sacked recalcitrant officials like Lloyd Elder, head of the Sunday School Board, the huge denominational publishing house based in Nashville...
Such fiascoes have for years discouraged virtually every U.S. utility from even looking sideways at nuclear power. "We have no plans to build a nuclear plant," says Pam Chapman, a spokeswoman for Indiana's PSI Energy. The troubled company is still reeling from the financial crisis that sandbagged it in 1984, when it wrote off $2.7 billion in construction costs for a half-built reactor. Concurs Gary Neale, president of nearby Northern Indiana Public Service Co., which scrubbed a barely started nuclear plant in 1981: "We're not antinuclear, but given the size of our company, I just...
...Sierra Club is filing suits against three other state agencies besides the DPW. According to Priscilla A. Chapman, director of the New England chapter of the Sierra Club, the state did not comply with Massachusetts environmental policy regulations in its review of some potential hazards related to the proposed Central Artery...
Specifically, Chapman said the state did not perform thorough enough tests on ventilation stacks which would remove emissions from the underground tunnels and disseminate them through the air above ground...
...Chapman said she was disappointed that the state had not responded to the intention to sue notice that the Sierra Club filed two months ago. "I'm not aware of anything that has changed since the day we filed the notice and now," she said...