Word: manhatten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fellows for 1987-'88 will be: Elizabeth J. Bellamy, University of Alabama; Elisabeth Bronfen; University of Munich; Howard Brick, University of Chicago; Marcel Cornis-Pop, University of Northern Iowa; Robert O. Gjerdingen, Carelton College; Susan A. Keefe, Davidson College; Ellen F. Martin, Marymount Manhatten College; Carol J. Oja, Brooklyn College; Frederick S. Paxton, Connecticut College; Frances L. Restuccia, Boston College; Margaret Schabas, University of Colorado; Rhys F. Townsend, Clark University; Daniel Vickers, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Marc A. Weiner, Indiana University...
...There is a stereotype of the person who succeeds [at interviews]" says one Manhatten research analyst who survived the Harvard interviewing process, adding, "you have to be very business-minded to begin with, or be incredibly self-assured...
Indeed the Commission was plagued with problems almost from the first. After the exciting breakthroughs of the Manhatten Project, which developed the atomic bomb, the task of working out the details of nuclear power plants was relatively mundane. As Ford writes, "Nobel prizes are not given to people who do plumbing, even for a nuclear reactor's cooling system." The result was that many of those most talented in nuclear physics returned to the ivory tower or took on positions in weapons development...
...years. Indeed, the A.E.C. allowed reactors to be built close to major metropolitan areas such as New York and Chicago. (Still, it is to the Commission's credit that it did not approve Consolidated Edison's proposal for a nuclear plant in Queens, across the East River from midtown Manhatten...
Kistiskowsky, one of the scientists in charge of the Manhatten project that built the first nuclear bomb during the 1940's, said Regan's plan to build 17,000 more warheads in the next four years is "ludicrous and crazy...