Word: interests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After members of the audience said they were skeptical about the interest of state officials in keeping utility rates down, Kahn said, "What do you expect me to do, kick the governor...
...MIRACULOUS chain of events which focused world attention on Three Mile Island may eventually prove a blessing. With public interest in the atomic energy issue aroused by the newly released movie, The China Syndrome, the latest in a long series of nuclear-related miscues received an inordinate share of media attention. Three Mile Island was the symbol of all that was wrong (or could go wrong) with a nuclear reactor: the anti-nuclear activists couldn't have staged a better dramatization of their fears...
...recent events are meaningful because of the increased public interest they have generated. In the long run, though, Three Mile Island will be truly effective only if it brings about the earnest investigations and reevaluations the public has been promised. Everyone from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to President Carter has pledged "a full accounting" of the Middletown accident and a subsequent reexamination of the nation's commitment to nuclear power. But as President Carter so aptly commented this week, "I think it does not contribute to safety to have a bureaucratic nightmare or maze of red tape." The studies...
White students' lack of interest in the Afro-American Studies Department underlies the University's refusal to give that program an adequate budget or enough tenured professors, Selwyn R. Cudjoe, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, said last night...
...reaction is one of great gratification and pleasure," Frazier, a member of the Currier House Senior Common Room for the past three years, said yesterday. "My wife and I enjoy young people very much; that part of our interest; in the job is purely selfish," he said...