Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world-watched a gas bubble build up in a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pa., and threaten to cause a hydrogen gas explosion that would spew radiation into the atmosphere. When the bubble finally disappeared and the danger subsided, deep relief was mingled with grave concern about the nuclear future...
HARRISBURG, Pa.--New tests show that the core of the nuclear reactor at the Three Mile Island power plant which failed last month suffered grave damage in the early stages of the crisis, federal officials announced yesterday...
That, of course, was a considerable rush to judgment. But the already beleaguered nuclear power industry had clearly suffered a crippling setback. Not only are its plans for expansion now in grave doubt, but the Three Mile Island accident came at a time when President Carter was about to propose a new approach to the nation's energy problems. He had already urged a speedup in putting new nuclear power plants into operation by reducing the years it takes to pass through all of the regulatory challenges. While a case could still be made that bureaucratic indecision and delay ought...
...court disagreed. Writing for the majority. Justice Byron White called the safety factor "marginal at best," and said it was not enough to outweigh the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures. There is, said White, "a 'grave danger' of abuse of discretion." The decision means that police will no longer be able to use such dubious reasons as the length of a driver's hair or the color of his skin to stop a car. In the court's view, wrote White, random checks by policemen are "an unsettling show of authority...
...ironic that the principal hope for the continued existence of Brumley Gap and its way of life lies in locating an Indian grave site. Can the remains of a displaced civilization be used to aid another on the verge of its own extinction...