Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where reactors are now operating or planned. Among the ten sites where he would allow no new construction: Indian Point, N.Y., near New York City; Zion, Ill., close to Chicago-and Three Mile Island. Concentrating construction at the other 90 sites, he believes, would result in the building of huge atomic complexes, staffed by groups of experts like those at the sprawling Government atomic works in Oak Ridge, Tenn...
...history of conflicting studies, incomplete reports and unclear statements has to provoke some skepticism about the possible effectiveness of inquiries into nuclear power. With the nation demanding such huge quantities of energy, the big-money companies advocating the use of reactors, and the President hoisting the nuclear banner, the private individual must feel neglected in the scheme of concerns...
...strike, of course, is a no-win situation. Each day Boston University remains closed costs the school huge amounts of money, and deprives the students of the education for which they have paid. The administration should ratify the negotiated contract, and avoid exacerbating the conflict needlessly. In particular, the support shown for the faculty by clerical and library workers should be respected by the administration. Further intransigence or retributive actions on the part of the administration will lead only to more trouble...
...huge treaty books were ready at last. Bound in gilt-edged blue morocco leather, there were nine copies of the document, one each for each participant in Hebrew, Arabic and English. White House crews had already tended the greening patch of grass at the site of the ceremony, placed a low riser on the spot and then tenderly carried from the second-floor Treaty Room the sturdy Victorian table that had been pur chased in the time of Ulysses S. Grant. Used by the Cabinet up to the day of Teddy Roosevelt, the table had witnessed some important business. Calvin...
Some officials are already talking about spending the revenues on things that have nothing to do with energy. One Treasury Department idea being examined by staffers on the House Ways and Means Committee is to use the proceeds to cut the size of the huge Social Security tax increases that Congress voted last year to go into effect beginning...