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FEMA officials downplay the significance of the council's rejection. "The planning process will simply not take place in Cambridge." Clanahan says. He adds that only 11 of 3000 cities participating in preparations have opposed the planning. Forbes describes the Cambridge reaction as "a political move." Councilors, he adds, "are not going to sit around at ground zero or near ground zero and watch those things...
Nonetheless, burning wood has important drawbacks. It produces polluting gases, soot and ashes and has sharply increased the number of burn victims treated by hospitals. Such considerations lead planners to downplay wood's potential. Says a Department of Energy spokesman: "Wood fuel is important, but nuclear power is still the most viable alternative energy source available...
Rumors that Harvard wanted to downplay the Kennedy name in connection with its School of Government originally sparked Vellucci's motion, he said. "I'm going to slap Harvard around until it hurts them," he said...
...Lorean promptly rejected the charges as "completely asinine." Said he: "The government has two people on our board to monitor our finances. Every cent we have ever had has been monitored by British internal revenue." Indeed, the Thatcher government went out of its way to downplay the affair. Britain's Solicitor-General Sir Ian Percival said that only "routine" inquiries were being made and stated flatly: "Neither the Prime Minister nor anyone else has ordered an investigation of the company's affairs or anything remotely like...
University officials have denied that they will downplay the Kennedy name in connection with the school's activities...