Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...While Metropolitan Edison--one of the owners of Three Mile Island--worked with NRC technicians and nuclear engineers trying to stabilize the haywire reactor, local residents were left uninformed. Hazardous Xenon 131 gas seeped into the atmosphere, and high-level bursts of radiation escaped to the containment building as plant officials released steam from the overheating equipment. Such steam releases were made, initially, without notifying local civil defense officials, who later expressed outrage at the situation's handling. These releases may have left their cancerous mark on thousands...
...government inspection file outlined problems in the Three Mile Island plant long before the March 28 accident. The report singled out the same valves and cooling system apparatus that failed during the accident. The NRC inspection even cited "personnel error" as a problem, but no action was taken. Instead, Metropolitan Edison pressed for the scheduled December 30, 1978, date for full-power operation of its reactor--to gather precious federal tax depreciation gains...
...used to play football, basketball and baseball with her brothers" on Chicago's North Shore. Or unless you knew about the 150 people who'd interviewed her in the three weeks after she was named the first woman sports editor of what many people consider it the major metropolitan daily. (As a matter of fact, she is the first woman sports editor of any major metropolitan daily.) Or about the six marriage proposals she got in those same three weeks...
Shelter, Inc., Pine Street Inn, and Rosie's Place each serve a different segment of the homeless population in the Boston metropolitan area. All are supported by contributions. Shelter and Pine Street also receive money from the State Department of Welfare...
...University police, to clear the building. Tonis said later he had "serious misgivings" about the action, but felt he had no choice. Later however, it became clear that outside police help would be needed; and so helmeted, gas-masked officers from Arlington, Cambridge, Boston, Somerville, Watertown, Newton and the Metropolitan District Commission were asked to make the charge, while University police kept the way clear. About 275 demonstrators were arrested, and about 75 injured. As the full-time cops were mopping up inside. Tonis circulated outside the building, apologizing to onlookers. "As far as the University police are concerned...