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...would be quite another issue if our technology as it is interpreted today made use of natural resources, restoring them to the environment in a way which would not disturb existing ecocycles, food chains, and land. But it does not. The only environmental compromise made by nuclear power advocates (as well as industrialists in general) is that they will do their job with "minimal damage to the environment", as Gov. William Milliken of Michigan recently put it. This half-hearted promise is simply not enough of a commitment, for two reasons...
...measure the years by, and there is no more game in provoking your cornered authority. You strain toward the desert shadows, seeing something I don't see. Maybe your god speaking to you. Drawn not by love, I settle beside you, my breath light so I won't disturb you. With my presence you rage like a young falcon and beseech your god that my death be slow...
...faith gives the book coherence it could well lose him readers who are not so enviably optimistic as he appears to be about the future. There are a few passages that sound a bit too close to the "God is Great, God is Good" sermons. Cox's enthusiasm might disturb the complacent atheist. Nevertheless, there are moments when even the slickest cynics would probably think again, as when this indubitably religious man concludes...
...disturb or divide." He looked forward finally to a day when the sides could exchange ambassadors and "we will have disagreements and discuss them like cultured nations...
...hospital is disputing a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision forbidding the hospital from banning prounion solicitation in its cafeteria. Beth Israel claims that union supporters might disturb ambulatory patients and visitors eating there. But the hospital cafeteria is also an important employee gathering place. Hospital administrators can argue against the union in letters that accompany workers' paychecks, but a union that is unable to reach workers during their off-hours at the hospital is severely restricted in its ability to present its side of the picture...