Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revolutionaries held regular jobs. Josie Bissell was a nurse's aide, while Michael Justesen worked as a pressman at a lithography firm. To avoid detection, the group scheduled all meetings with Ralph and Dick by calling them at predesignated phone booths. The radicals never went to any political demonstrations for fear of being spotted by lawmen. When driving in cars, they always monitored police radios. The fugitives among them went out only at night. None had any contact with their families. All had aliases and would change them as often as once a week, but they never used counterfeit...
Since July, salesmen for a firm owned by France's Atomic Energy Commission have been busily signing up foreign power companies for the "reprocessing" of their nuclear wastes by still-to-be-built French facilities. Essentially, these wastes are used-up nuclear fuel in the form of long, needle-like rods encased in zircaloy metal sheaths. Once these rods have been used in a conventional reactor, the utilities normally keep them in large storage tanks that resemble swimming pools. But in reprocessing, the spent fuel is removed from the sheaths; usable quantities of plutonium and uranium are then separated...
...retail stores that will move into the new building will face Brattle Street and will feature a below ground level entrance and glass canopy overhanging the sidewalk, said James B. Herals, project manager for Sert, Jackson & Associates, the architectural firm that designed the complex...
Rogers, who was born in Hattiesburg, Miss., began as a $40-a-week runner, handling practically every job before he became art director at the Trahey Advertising Agency. He bought the Trahey firm in 1974, renamed it Peter Rogers Associates, and has since increased billings by 300%. But he intends to stay small. Says he: "We make just as much money, and still have control over the work...
...Scott, who started the whole affair by investigating Siwek's complaint, notes that this is the first time so many state attorneys general have banded together to fight a case on behalf of consumers against a giant national company. Says Scott: "We really formed a national public service law firm that could prove effective again in the future" if another company gives grounds for reactivating the coalition...