Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were other financial burdens. The 1962-63 New York newspaper strike, which lasted 114 days, was an unexpected disaster that deprived the struggling Western Edition of sorely needed parental support. In the first nine months of 1963, the Times lost $2,709,000-as compared with a profit of...
A small but real chance of catastrophic accident rides with many a military and scientific program. Nuclear weapons have already been involved in at least ten accidents - always, so far, without exploding, though one 24-megaton bomb jettisoned by a B-52 was reportedly found in a field with five...
Whom could future disaster victims sue? The Federal Tort Claims Act establishes that the Government is liable at most for proved negligence of its employees. Contractors, except a few working for the Atomic Energy Commission or doing Defense Department research, are on their own; if their products are at fault...
What is needed, the research report urges, is a new law for direct Government compensation so that disaster victims can get partial payment with emergency speed, with determination of the full amount later. Contractors would still be liable up to a ceiling of perhaps $10 million. Beyond that the Government...
Shifting his story from London to Berlin and then deep into East Germany, Le Carré proves a deadpan master at invoking darkness at noon in the crocodile world of international espionage. Violence and the threat of violence are the least of what Leamas faces in the grillings he gets...