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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...
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...
According to a press release from the College Democrats of America, students from the Northeast, Middle Atlantic and Midwest raised their own funds to visit the president in New Hampshire last weekend...