Word: metropolitane
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...accident was a financial and public relations disaster for Metropolitan Edison, the utility that operated Three Mile Island. In 1981 its corporate parent, New Jersey-based General Public Utilities (GPU), set up a new subsidiary, called GPU Nuclear Corp., to clean up the mess left by the accident and reassure the public that T.M.I. Unit 2 is safe. The company is making progress at the first task but has been less successful with the second...
...campaign to win back official and public trust for Three Mile Island is even further behind schedule. Investigators for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have raised questions about safety procedures being followed by some of the cleanup crews. A federal grand jury has charged Metropolitan Edison with criminal misconduct in connection with its operation of the plant in the months preceding the accident. Among other things, the company is accused of having manipulated and falsified tests relating to leaks and then concealing the problem from...
George Frideric Handel. For almost 30 years, while the operatic vogue was at its peak, Handel was the unquestioned master of the form. Despite his historic eminence, however, he was neglected by the Metropolitan Opera until last week, when it finally staged Rinaldo...
...currently "looking about 20 years into the future of the Yosemite National Park. It is an area which is very complicated as an international resource which is slowly becoming a metropolitan park for Californians...
With these experts' connivance, Watson adopted a new identity based on false documents and stationery filched from New York City's Metropolitan Museum. To help people in the art world remember him easily, Watson flaunted a quirky bow tie and cultivated a limp by wearing an excruciatingly tight pair of Italian shoes...