Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Pro-Life Political Action Committee. Based in Chicago, this group is headed by Father Charles Fiore, 45, a Dominican priest with a reddish beard and a combative temperament that sometimes offends his superiors. When Father Fiore urged Catholics to stop contributing to any community fund drive benefiting organizations that aid abortions, John Cardinal Cody ordered him to stop preaching in the Chicago archdiocese. One reason: some of the same fund drives also support Catholic charities. Uncowed, Father Fiore asks: "What does it profit an archdiocese if it gains $3.7 million and suffers the loss of its own soul...
...first time in four years, contracts for future delivery of wheat traded on the Chicago Board of Trade have exceeded $4 per bu.-a psychological mark that is as important to grain traders as the $300-an-ounce level is to dealers in gold. Though prices dipped somewhat last week, contracts for wheat and some grains to be delivered in July rose to yearly highs during June. At their peak, contracts for wheat were up to $4.86 per bu., vs. $3.23 for the same period last year. Corn, the major livestock feed, jumped to $3.17 per bu., up from...
...further complicated by "the solar load": as the sun moves around the building, room temperatures inside can rise by as much as 5° F. "You can't just set office thermostats like you do those in a home," explains Larry Wethers, a building-systems assistant for Chicago's 110-story Sears Tower, which has some 4,000 temperature controls. "Setting all of these would be like adjusting all the thermostats in the town of Elmhurst, Ill." George Hindy, manager of Boston's 52-story Prudential Tower and its companion building, thinks he can comply with...
...responsibility for the near miss at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant lay with control-room personnel: they were not able to cope with a crisis. Just how should reactor operators learn their jobs? To find out, TIME Correspondent Peter Staler visited a nuclear training school near Chicago, where emergencies are programmed into the curriculum. His report...
Real as it seemed, the taut control-room drama was only a training exercise. In fact, "emergencies" are daily happenings at General Electric's Boiling Water Reactor Training Center in Morris, Ill., 50 miles southwest of Chicago. Since it opened eleven years ago, it has been instructing more than 400 people a year in the fine art of running and maintaining G.E.-built reactors. Says Don Janacek, the school's "dean": "Our aim is to produce people who can operate their plants not just efficiently but safely...