Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against flimsy railings to gaze down into an open experimental pool reactor and marvel at the blue radiation glow that emanated from its fuel rods. While the radiation itself was under water and posed no hazard, a dropped camera or notebook, not to mention a reporter who might have fallen into the pool, could have contaminated the reactor and forced its shutdown...
About the best thing to be said for the film is that Bombeck does not play the autobiographical heroine herself. That odious chore has fallen instead to Carol Burnett, an actress who is often capable of extracting humor from even the most puerile material. This is one of her rare failures. Bombeck's stale jokes about crabgrass and Tupperware parties defy levitation; the cutesie plot is predictable to anyone who has ever encountered any incarnation of Please Don 't Eat the Daisies. Unfortunately, Burnett doesn't get any help from Director Robert Day. His idea of high...
...situation is no better with the line's 4,500 aging locomotives. Largely as a result of frequent breakdowns and long delays, the on-time arrival of shipments has fallen from 75% in 1976 to 65%-a dismal performance that angers shippers and causes them to switch to trucks...
...that American life has not changed very much in 50 years -or at least the kind of American life lived in a town like Muncie. The Lynds, describing the wrenching dislocations that propelled America from a somnolent agrarianism to a modern industrialism, said that if Rip van Winkle had fallen asleep in Muncie in 1885 and awakened in 1929, he would not be able to cope with the new Middletown. The new researchers think his awakening would be far less rude today. Says Caplow: "If Rip van Winkle went to sleep 50 years ago and returned to Muncie today...
...long run, however, recognition of China is vital if the United States is to destroy the awesome level of ignorance that has pervaded its policies in the Far East. Since the McCarthy era's purge of the State Department's China hands, infrequent reassessments of U.S.-China relations have fallen upon an ignorant, almost immature, China desk. The costs of this ignorance have been staggering. While it is more dramatic to suggest proximate solutions to redress the triangular balance of power, it is this deep-seated myopia that must first be corrected. Until full diplomatic relations are established...