Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A decade ago, when the U.S. finally agreed to let some 500 Micronesians return to their native island of Bikini, Washington officials determined to undo the damage inflicted by 23 nuclear tests. All sorts of debris was scooped off the beaches and dumped out at sea. Swaths of local jungle...
It was bad enough that two weeks ago the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Lance and his friends with violating federal law by trying to conceal the extent of their purchases of Financial General shares. Lance's wife LaBelle and four Arabs, including the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi...
Foes of DNA research were on hand last week to protest the opening of the new lab. "Why is our money being used to manipulate the genes of life to create a brave new world?" asked Jeremy Rifkin of the Peoples Business Commission. But many scientists who only a year...
¶ The Administration finally sent to Congress a bill to speed construction of nuclear plants. The bill would set up a new licensing procedure involving the preselection and approval of potential plant sites and the combining of construction permits and operating licenses. That alone would shave two or more years...
¶ President Carter appointed an inter-agency task force to recommend a national policy for the disposal of nuclear wastes, a prerequisite for large-scale nuclear development. The transportation and storage of spent fuel and other dangerous wastes have been so obstructed by technical and bureaucratic delays that only one...