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...about 1 million seniors a year, is designed to predict on the basis of general intellectual aptitude how they will perform in college. In addition, the yearly aggregate result has come to be regarded as a leading indicator of how well U.S. high schools are doing. Says George Hanford, president of the College Entrance Examination Board, which sponsors the SAT: "This year's score increase, however slight, combined with last year's steady state, is an encouraging sign that the serious efforts by educators, parents and students to improve the quality of education are starting to take effect...
...Government will not say what its plutonium stockpiles are, but consideration is being given to construction of two new plutonium production reactors alongside plants currently operating in Savannah River, S.C., and Hanford, Wash. Neither project is expected to be completed before 1990, and the eventual cost is estimated by one weapons authority to be "fantastically expensive-in the billions...
Elizabeth Hanford Dole, 44, presidential assistant, on the White House coterie: "The President doesn't want any yes men and women around him. When he says...
...nuked to death," says Campaign Manager C. Montgomery Johnson in explanation of Ray's defeat. Indeed, Ray's outspoken advocacy of more nuclear power proved unpopular. In particular, she angered many voters by insisting on keeping open a dump at Hanford for nuclear wastes, including atomic garbage trucked in from other states. Said Ray: "There has to be some place to put it." McDermott favors expansion of nuclear power only "as a last resort," and wants to close the Hanford dump to all radioactive wastes except those from medical facilities...
...level radioactive waste suddenly shut down. Getting rid of the less-than-deadly waste, produced by area laboratories and hospitals at the rate of about 3500 30-gallon barrels each year, proved more than a slight headache for University officials when Washington Gov. Dixie Lee Ray closed the Hanford, Wash., dumping site in early October...