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...town planning board of Hanover. N H has approved a proposal allowing storage of low-level radioactive waste on the campus of Dartmouth College beginning in September...
...experts concluded, the conflict vindicated arguments that Britain should retain a strike capacity in addition to its role in NATO. A public relations shambles over press censorship came in for considerable criticism, as did the Royal Navy task force's lack of a credible early-warning system against low-level air attack. "Had the Argentine air force been equipped with more up-to-date systems," noted one general, "the war would have been a much more bloody affair." On balance, however, the navy was praised for overcoming the logistical nightmares of the campaign that, most agreed, provided a unique...
Mugabe met with Nkomo secretly last month to explore ways to defuse the volatile situation, but the results of the session are not known. Low-level officials of both parties are working on a political compromise that would give Nkomo and his followers a larger role in the government. But because tribal enmity is so deeply rooted in Zimbabwe's history, any settlement may prove fleeting...
Some experts take a longer view of progress in the workplace. Richard F. America, co-author of Moving Ahead: Black Managers in American Business, says that since blacks began to get low-level management jobs only 15 years ago, better results will not be seen until they have climbed the corporate ladder, a process that could take another ten years. By the year 2000, he believes, a black will be chief executive of a FORTUNE 500 company. Many of today's black managers are not nearly as optimistic. Looking back on the progress they have made, they feel they...
...significant portion of contemporary scientific study, including genetics, immunology, and cancer-related experimentation, produces the low-level material. Currently, Harvard and other state waste producers ship the radioactive by-product to the state of Washington...