Word: dozen
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...consumers will soon choose their electric company the way they now choose a long-distance telephone carrier. Companies with nuclear plants are at a disadvantage because nuclear-generated electricity can cost twice as much as fossil-generated power. No new plants have been ordered in 18 years, and a dozen have been mothballed in the past decade...
Then, in late 1992, David Lochbaum and Don Prevatte, consultants working at Pennsylvania Power & Light's Susquehanna plant, began to analyze deficiencies in spent-fuel cooling systems. They realized that a problem had been sneaking up on the industry: half a dozen serious accidents at different plants had caused some water to drain from the pools. In the worst of them, at Northeast's Haddam Neck plant in 1984, a seal failure caused 200,000 gal. to drain in just 20 min. from a water channel next to the fuel pool. If the gate between the channel and the pool...
...opinion from India about the unwillingness of United States intellectuals to seriously analyze Federal farm policy, the laughter from Spain about American feminists as unable to go top-free on beaches as they are unable to nudge Congress toward state-funded daycare, the careful analysis from a half-dozen countries of Muslim imperialism versus the iconography of Madonna, the reminder from Rome that Italy once governed one-third of present-day Somalia. Not liberal, not conservative, not European or Asian begins to designate overseas programming. Only different comes anywhere close, although at Harvard strange might do as well...
...site of Saturday's attack, Basulto insists that he will not back down, reports Drummond. "I am always concerned for my safety," he says. "But I am more concerned for my rights." Saturday's flotilla, initially estimated at six boats has now grown to include about a dozen. The Cuban government issued a statement that it "will take necessary measures" if any of the boats enter Cuban waters. The U.S. government, unwilling to take any chances, has ordered Coast Guard cutters to accompany the vessels from Key West to the site of the memorial service and back...
Director of Admissions Marlyn E. McGrath Lewis '70 said she estimates two to three dozen home-schooled students applied this year to be accepted into the Class...