Word: directs
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REGULATION. Experts from the NRC should be on duty in the control room of every reactor round the clock, armed with full authority to take over at the first sign of trouble, order a shut down if that seems necessary, direct all emergency procedures for closing the plant-and damn what it may cost. At present, this responsibility is borne largely by utility-company employees, who, with the best will in the world, cannot avoid thinking about the costs to the company. In addition, computers at all U.S. nuclear plants should be wired in to a central NRC monitoring station...
...federal government's Office of Education will allocate approximately $181,000 at Radcliffe's '78-'79 National Direct Student Loan (NDSL) program, a 150 per cent increase over last year's grant, Martha C. Lyman, acting director of financial aid, said yesterday...
Business is taking a more direct approach in Washington, Adam begins. "I think businessmen have decided they haven't been winning much staying back in their cave," he says. "And they can't send the corporals and the sargents and the captains to the field all the time; the general has to appear as well...
Pusey and Ford justified the police action on the grounds that they had to protect the University and what it stood for. "It was quite clear that the issue was a direct assault upon the authority of the University and upon rational processes and accepted procedures," Pusey said in a statement released April 11. "What is now at stake is the freedom to teach, to inquire and to learn," Ford added in a statement released the same day. "Some now insist that 'storm troopers entered University Hall.' This is true, but they entered it at noon on Wednesday, not dawn...
...race course was shortened from the normal 1500 meters to approximately 1400 meters, beginning below the Northeastern boathouse and finishing at Peabody Terrace with two bridges in the middle, because a strong quartering headwind (in between a direct crosswind and a direct headwind) worked havoc in the basin, making in unrowable...