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...uncomfortable Herbein still contended: "We didn't injure anybody. We didn't overexpose anybody. We didn't kill a single soul. The release of radioactivity off-site was minimal." He said only 15 employees had even been exposed to enough radiation to require them to take showers and discard the clothes they had worn at the time of the accident. His biggest worry seemed to be what to do with the 250,000 gal. of contaminated water on the floor of the reactor building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nuclear Nightmare | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...young who are most responsible for the changes in Moras En Valloire. They retain the peasant work ethic, for that is too deeply rooted in their psyches to discard; but generally they tend to be impatient with tradition. Instead, they prefer the future with its glittering promise of a new and better life ahead...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The Other France: Life Among the Peasants | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

Some radical feminists have presented women with a Hobson's choice: be a good feminist or be a good mother. The Ourselves authors see raising children as healthy and creative, rather than inhibiting. Radicals wanted women to discard their aprons and get on in the real world; Ourselves, turning this view on its head, calls on men to discard their briefcases and join the world of women, to participate in the emotional growth of raising a child. Both men and women, then, should have careers, and both should enjoy the "nurturing," or emotional fulfillment, of being a parent...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Bringing Up Baby | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

Sadat can discard all of these options, of course, if the summit succeeds and a new "spirit of Camp David" is born. In that case the peace process would accelerate, and negotiations between Egypt and Israel would resume at a number of levels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Sealed-Lips Summit | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...could probably give you a shot-by-shot analysis of this unsubtle director's techniques, most critics will find it hard to be objective about Revenge of the Pink Panther. So much depends on one's mood, the setting, the company, an, of course, one's expectations. To discard all pretense of objectivity: I had a great time at Revenge, although a) I was in a good mood, B) in a crowded, happy theater, with c) someone I was fond of and d) I expected nothing...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: PANTHER PUREE | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

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