Word: mortems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Post-Mortem on Bhutto...
...investigators continued their post-mortem on the Pennsylvania accident, an advisory panel recommended installation of expensive new monitoring instruments at all 43 of the U.S.'s pressurized-water reactors?the type in use at Three Mile Island. The NRC also heard a complaint from a nuclear analyst for the Tennessee Valley Authority that the reactor's builder, Babcock & Wilcox, had brushed off his warning of a "serious" design problem. Perhaps of greatest immediate import, officials conceded that it may take several more weeks, possibly months, to achieve a "cold shutdown" of the crippled reactor, meaning bringing it down...
...League performed the last rites for the '78-'79 basketball season this week when it released the All-Ivy Team selections. The post-mortem held a few surprises, as well as plenty of disappointments...
...votes counted and in some cases recounted, politicians, pollsters and pundits-the subculture that makes its living from the expensive game of competing for public office-sat back last week to try to understand not just what had happened but exactly why. What emerged from this post-mortem on the 1978 elections was a vision of American politics in which large numbers of people sat by like wallflowers in a dance hall while small groups of voters performed an erratic sort of disco dance...
...first a post-mortem study yielded no poison. But what doctors did find under Markov's skin was a tiny platinum-iridium pellet, 1.7 mm in diameter, with two holes, each a mere .4 mm wide, drilled in at right angles. The holes could have contained a toxic substance, either bacterial or chemical?quite possibly not traceable...