Word: fates
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Like many troubled nuclear power facilities around the country, Shoreham's fate is controlled at least as much by public authorities as it is by Lilco's beleaguered management. The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has yet to license the plant for operation. Locally, officials of Long Island's Suffolk County are convinced that a serious accident at the plant would cause nuclear fallout to envelop nearby residents before they could flee. Said Deputy Suffolk County Executive Frank Jones: "Shoreham should not and cannot go on line. It should be abandoned." Some county officials now argue that Shoreham...
...back in Cambridge--the first time I've had to put what I have been doing for the past 10 years in perspective--is how little my personal preoccupation with cities is shared--by presidential candidates, by professors, and by public opinion. In the 1960s and early 1970s the fate of cities was a dominant, if not the dominant, issue of domestic concern. Books after book appeared on city politics, city problems, city architecture, city history. Here at Harvard two of the most popular undergraduate government courses dealt with urban issues...
...started the nuclear arms race, and have led every step of the way. Every new weapons system has given the world less security and taken more control over our lives away from us. The fate of the Earth will be decided by split-second decisions by U.S and Soviet computers. Mutually Assured Destruction was achieved years ago. The push to go any further beyond that point indicates an unwillingness to understand the difference between bows and arrows and nuclear weapons. Such an unwillingness points to a profound indifference to life. In that indifference. I suggest that our President represents...
...case, Reagan's policies. Moreover, like Schell, Dallek describes in encyclopedic detail the features of his awful portrait of the Reagan phenomenon--a survey which reveals journalists and pundits sometimes shocked, sometimes disbelieving, and sometimes simply sardonically amused. The value of the Dallek survey is that, like Schell's Fate of The Earth, it shows the breadth of the Reagan game--the extent to which his is a government of symbols, the depth of the problem. If Dallek, like Schell, seems to offer no realistic solutions, you can't fault him for it. If the success of Reaganism has shown...
...role that Lannon played in the changes has been the subject of much debate in recent months, as the school committee deliberated his fate in a series of public hearings in January and February...