Word: diablos
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...apply to others. The construction of facilities, which is generally done by a veritable army of subcontractors under the direction of the utility, is often poorly supervised. The result of this laxness is work that can best be described as shoddy. Some of the earthquake supports for California's Diablo Canyon plant were installed backward, as was the reactor vessel at the San Onofre plant near San Diego. Reactor supports at Comanche Peak in Texas were installed 45° out of position. Pipes inside and outside the reactor building at Shoreham on Long Island, N.Y., failed to meet properly...
...young man in East L.A.'s scruffy old Maravilla barrio calls himself Diablo. He wears a sleeveless T shirt, so his tattoos are plain. Diablo, 23, spends most of his free time hanging out with a few fellow members of the Lopez-Maravilla gang. They look tough. But at a meeting in a tool shed late last month, they were mostly concerned with planning an upcoming rummage sale. There are some 300 Mexican youth gangs in L.A., and many are violent drug users: police say 260 homicides last year were gang related...
...airport, her papers are checked in "a thicket of automatic weapons." Cherokee Chiefs, synonymous with family fun in the States, lurk about as the preferred vehicles of death squads that "disappear" people suspected of guerrilla activities or sympathies. She visits the body dumps of El Playon and Puerta del Diablo, where many of the disappeared turn up dead and disfigured. She peeks into the tallies of the weekly "grim-grams" that the U.S. embassy in San Salvador sends to Washington. She discovers that statistics and categories tend to be slippery in this part of the world...
...sold in dollars, but we couldn't keep rack of them by pounds and numbers at the same time." He started shopping around and finally acquired a $12,000 combination at a shop in Lafayette, Ind.: a microcomputer from California Comput er Systems, a video screen from Ampex, a Diablo word printer and an array of agricultural programs...
Responding to public pressure, PUC has ordered PG&E to roll back $100 million of its January rate increase immediately. Last week Governor Brown asked the commission for a further reduction and ordered an investigation into PG&E's construction-cost overruns, including its ill-fated Diablo Canyon nuclear facility, whose completion has been delayed by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission probe into its design and safety...