Word: mishap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...itself, says the Kemeny report, reacted to the Three Mile Island mishap ''in an atmosphere of uncertainty,'' and took actions that were ''ill-defined...
...course, that is exactly what they do -and without any mishap to generate much suspense. Oh, there is this photographer (the winsome Brooke Adams) who mistakes one of the crooks for a construction worker and snaps his picture when, dressed like a foreman, he is making off with some blueprints he needs. But this character, played in more than usually laid-back style by Donald Sutherland, disarms whatever suspicions she may have by falling in love with her. Even when one of her pictures appears on a billboard on the bank, it does nothing to set back the robbers...
...Harvard probably won't be able to dodge a stand on the nuclear question forever. Lawrence F. Stevens '65, secretary of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), will face quite a few shareholder resolutions this spring from investors alarmed by the mishap at Three Mile Island...
...four months, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), among others, has been looking into the causes and effects of the nation's worst commercial reactor accident. Last week, in a report that is sure to have wide repercussions, NRC staff investigators said that the most serious aspects of the mishap were almost certainly due to human error. And though they acknowledged that the radiation level was low, they said that one burst was greater than any previously revealed...
Lloyd's calculating oddsmakers are ruefully philosophical about their mishap. Says Underwriter Murray Lawrence: "If we didn't have losses we wouldn't be in business." The group draws some satisfaction from the recent strengthening of sterling, now at $2.22, which means that members will have to lay out fewer pounds to pay off claims in dollars. But that is sore solace. As Underwriter Peter Cameron-Webb noted, "I doubt if a broker will ever try to place this policy again at Lloyd...