Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Clamshell Alliances opposed the construction of nuclear power plants in New England on the grounds that the waste product plutonium presents serious waste disposal problems, and that the environment cannot afford to run the risk of a major nuclear power plant accident that would release large quantities of radiation...
Owlich, staff assistant on the House Subcommittee on Health and Environment, said the committee has not yet decided what form the regulations would take, or who would administer them.
"A creative outlet is particularly important for students here, who tend to be a thinking lot. This is such a verbal environment, also, and dance has so many non-verbal aspects: space, time, rhythm, music and one's own body," Mayman added.
One school that Hentoff mentions is P.S. 91, an elementary school in a "disadvantaged" neighborhood of Brooklyn where principal Martin Schor refused to accept the notion that poor children are handicapped in learning to read. Schor's efforts resulted in a dramatic improvement in reading scores--51 per cent of...
In that mixed environment, Bradshaw sees the need for each element to perform the function that it does best. As Bradshaw wrote in the February Fortune: "We should not strive to bring about more government intervention in economic matters, but we surely need to make that intervention more rational. " Bradshaw...