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...GALATIS DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT Lochbaum's struggle to get fuel-pool problems taken seriously. He did know he would face resistance from Northeast, where the bonus system is set up to reward employees who don't raise safety issues that incur costs and those who compromise productivity see their bonuses reduced. (Northeast says it has a second set of bonuses to reward those who raise safety issues. Galatis never...
...threat sounds genuine, the team's first crucial task is to locate the bomb, which is presumably hidden. After flying in from around the country on military transport, NEST searchers divide the threatened city--the cia and fbi assume terrorists will target an urban area in order to incur maximum casualties--into search grids. Energy Department aircraft, specially fitted with photographic equipment, are sent aloft to take shots of the city for detailed maps that can be used if intelligence sources narrow the search to a particular area or type of structure. Helicopters equipped with radiation detectors can sweep over...
Opponents of the billboards contend that the signs incur structural damage on the buildings they adorn. Architects have attributed the deterioration of the Wursthaus building in Harvard Square partially to the stress from the billboard atop...
Medicare has always played a special role at teaching hospitals, most notably because it pays for most of the costs of teaching that those hospitals incur...
...much of that attention is proving hostile. Local and state officials are often at a loss to interpret a law that demands "reasonable accommodation" of the disabled yet allows that compliance need not incur "undue hardship." At a time when voters are feverishly opposed to more regulations and higher taxes, the country's 85,000 state and local government agencies bump up against public resistance when they want to spend money to benefit a relative few. "That's taking time and resources that could have been used in a lot of other ways," says Wally Douthwaite, city manager...