Word: firm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engineers at Three Mile Island, for whatever reason, were confronted by a situation they had not foreseen, were uncertain at first how to handle?and most unsettling of all, perhaps did not even understand. At the least, the eight other plants using the same design, and built by the firm of Babcock & Wilcox, might be taken out of operation until the problem is thoroughly analyzed. This is the approach used by the aviation industry, which sometimes grounds all planes of a given model when a dangerous structural or mechanical defect is found in one of them. The potential human tragedy...
...Harrisburg on business stood up and addressed the panel. Said she: "I don't want him to go, but he says it's his job. We're having a big fight." Would he be safe? she asked the physicians. None could give her a firm answer...
...seven plants were designed by Babcock and Wilson, the firm which designed the Harrisburg reactor...
...plump, graying man stood up in his shirtsleeves last week in the sweltering 88° heat of Melbourne, Australia, and made a surprising announcement. Said Chairman Henry Ford II to his firm's local managers: "By the end of this year I will have relinquished my executive responsibilities with the Ford Motor...
Celebrating his firm's 80th anniversary this year, Saji spent $7.5 million to set up a Suntory foundation that aims to better define for foreigners Japan's political, cultural and economic role in the world. That gesture probably was not purely philanthropic. Suntory's U.S. sales are minuscule, less than 50,000 cases last year. Saji's hope is that the foundation will enhance Suntory's presence-and possibly sales-in the world's richest and most sought-after market...