Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GEORGE BETANCOURT LOOKED UP FROM HIS DESK AS George Galatis burst into the office, a bundle of papers under his arm. On that morning in March 1992, the two men--both senior engineers at Northeast Utilities, which operates five nuclear plants in New England--were colleagues but not yet friends. Apart from their jobs and first names, they seemed to have little in common. Betancourt, 45, was extravagantly rebellious--beard, biker boots, ponytail sneaking out the back of his baseball cap--while Galatis, 42, was square-jawed and devout: Mr. Smith Goes Nuclear. But Galatis respected Betancourt's expertise...
...cool-down period before a full off-load, sometimes moving the fuel just 65 hrs. after shutdown, a violation that had melted the boots of a worker on the job. By sidestepping the safety requirements, Millstone saved about two weeks of downtime for each refueling--during which Northeast Utilities has to pay $500,000 a day for replacement power...
...July 14 meeting, Jenison, one official who wasn't going to stand for any regulatory sleight-of-hand, told DeBarba and Kacich that if Northeast tried to resolve its licensing problems through internal paperwork alone, he would oppose it. Northeast had to get a license amendment approved before it could off-load another full core, and time was running out. DeBarba and Kacich called on Galatis and Betancourt to help them write the amendment request. The plan included, for the first time, the cooling-system improvements Galatis had been demanding for three years. It was a kind of victory...
Wendy Nicholas, the Northeast Regional Director for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, confirmed that a number of board members visited the University last year to "see what was going...
With all of this, Buchanan seems to agree. He is toeing the line of a party that has been dead for a century. He has even resurrected the regionalism of the populists, attributing all national problems to the Northeast and, in particular, to those "New York bankers"--an inelegant use of code to say the least...