Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hudson Institute
...impressed by the lack of ideology in the looting-a striking contrast to the 1960s riots. Says he: "When the lights went out, there was a free-for-all, an individualistic phenomenon in which everyone gets what he or she can get." Declared Futurist Herman Kahn, director of the Hudson Institute: "They have no idea of what moral standards are. This 'suppressed rage' idea is crap. This kind of reasoning will make the same thing happen all over again...
...severe summer thunderstorm had just swept across the green suburban hills of northern Westchester in the vicinity of the Indian Point No. 3 nuclear power plant overlooking the Hudson River. At 8:37 p.m., according to Con Ed's preliminary analysis, flashes of lightning knocked out two 345-kilovolt lines. That immediately cut off all the electricity from the 900-megawatt Indian Point facility, and the nuclear plant was promptly and safely shut down. Then, while duty officers at Con Ed's main control center in Manhattan-a huge, display-filled room somewhat like Mission Control in Houston...
...because of opposition from environmentalists, the company carried nonexistent reserve-generating capacity on its books, and more or less hoped for the best. When Luce took over, two new plants were under construction and plans were under way to develop a hydroelectric facility atop Storm King Mountain on the Hudson River. Though all three projects were supposed to be on line by mid-1972, it took the new chairman nearly a year to realize that the target dates were wildly unrealistic. By then, costs were soaring and the environmental lobby was pummeling the Storm King project in the courts...
...town's weekly newspaper editorialized: "This is the summer to find out what a home town is all about." Last year's tall ships are scattered around the world now, but on the weekend of the Fourth, New York will have an armada of smaller vessels parading up the Hudson from the harbor...