Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...water was passed through filters to remove radioactive material, which was then loaded into stainless-steel casks and trucked away for testing at an Energy Department facility near Richland, Wash. In August, the company plans to lift the cover off the Unit 2 reactor and remove the destroyed core and the remaining fuel rods. Once it has done that, it will be able to complete the process of decontaminating the reactor building and either decommissioning the reactor or repairing it. The company admits that the cleanup, which is more than a year behind schedule, will cost over $900 million...
Spence seemed grateful for the help, and on occasion even--when asked a question about the Core Curriculum--he appeared so turn to Bok for approval after calling it a "giant step forward" in educational curricula...
Rosovsky's tenure has been marked by general peace on the Faculty and a concentration on undergraduate issues, especially creation of the much publicized Core Curriculum. Rosovsky reportedly turned down the presidencies of several universities-including Yale-to complete the Core in the mid-1970s...
...Kennedy was of course, a brilliant politician and media manipulator. And he knew that he needed the support of liberal intellectuals, the core of the party, if he were to become president. So Kennedy curried the favor of academies like Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 and John Kenneth Galbraith; their activist, anti-Communist stance began to weave its way into his campaing speeches. Kennedy gambled by casting himself as the civil rights candidate. With Lyndon Johnson as his running mate--to reassure Southern white voters--Kennedy slipped by in November with a plurality of 118.550 votes...
...blocs that have been alienated by one or another of Reagan's right-wing policies. And they represent a lot of votes: Pollster Louis Harris figures that "hardcore" anti-Reaganites, who would vote for almost anyone against the President, constitute 38% of all potential voters, vs. only 35% hard-core supporters who would vote for Reagan against any foreseeable opponent. "Unions, teachers, environmentalists, feminists, those are all groups that are anti-Reagan more than pro-Mondale," says one Republican campaigner who fears their ability to organize and get out the vote...