Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end officials insisted that while the danger of a meltdown had not vanished, it was receding. Nevertheless, suspense as to the eventual outcome buttressed the claims of nuclear power's foes that all the wondrous fail-safe gadgets of modern technology had turned out to be just as fallible as the men who had designed and built them. Declared Nuclear Power Critic Ralph Nader: "This is the beginning of the end of nuclear power in this country...
...Thursday an NRC official was calling the plant failure "one of the most serious nuclear accidents to occur in the U.S." Nevertheless, at a jammed press conference in Hershey, an uncomfortable Herbein still contended: "We didn't injure anybody. We didn't overexpose anybody. We didn't kill a single soul. The release of radioactivity off-site was minimal." He said only 15 employees had even been exposed to enough radiation to require them to take showers and discard the clothes they had worn at the time of the accident. His biggest worry seemed to be what to do with...
...referendum in Scotland and Wales fell short of the 40% approval by the total electorate required for the government's home rule, or devolution, bills. The eleven members of the Scottish National Party, whose votes had been essential to the survival of Callaghan's minority government,* nevertheless insisted that the government go ahead with legislation for Scottish home rule. When Callaghan demurred and asked for an all-party conference instead, the Nationalists angrily withdrew their support and demanded a no-confidence vote. Sensing victory, the Tories immediately asked for one too, as did the Liberals, and thus...
...opportunity is great. There are billions of oil dollars in European banks eagerly seeking investment opportunity, and with the declining value of the dollar, they can be invested nowhere more profitably than in the United States. As any real estate broker could tell you, to some extent they are. Nevertheless, the second greatest contributor to our balance-of-payments deficit, after oil, is short-term capital overflow. The problem, again, is not the generating of enough capital. It is keeping it here...
...situation is about to change. The Ethics Advisory Board of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has just given IVF a moral go-ahead and urged HEW to lift the ban. While doing so, it nevertheless recommended research limitations that may influence future policy with regard to such matters as selective human breeding...