Word: nuclear
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...moment, Bennett is getting interested in Public Service of New Hampshire. Financially strapped by its inability to open the controversial Seabrook nuclear plant, Public Service is close to becoming the first major utility to file for bankruptcy since World War II. That might mean trouble for its shareholders, creditors and customers, but it could lead to another golden opportunity for R.D. Smith...
This is roughly the situation of students in Room 201, who are conjuring up imaginary new projects and then charting all the tasks needed to bring them to market. A manager from Godfather's Pizza is working with a training coordinator from Wisconsin Power & Light to launch nuclear wastes into the sun. Someone else is hoping to market a stringless yo-yo ("potential opportunity...
...popular since Columbia started the practice in 1984. One reason for the scholarly surge: the warming climate of glasnost created by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. But interest in Soviet studies has gained momentum steadily since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the renewed tensions between the superpowers over nuclear arms early in the Reagan presidency. Observes Russian History Professor James West of Trinity College in Connecticut: "We're one of the fields that benefit from disaster. Russian studies were almost lost with detente...
Next semester 350 students at Tufts College in Medford, Mass., along with counterparts at Moscow M.V. Lomonosov State University, will start an unprecedented joint course in the history of the nuclear arms race between the two nations. The program will include four satellite-relayed televised sessions, during which Soviet and American students will carry on live, transcontinental discussions of critical events such as the Cuban missile crisis. Says Tufts President Jean Mayer, who initiated the idea in a letter to Gorbachev last February: "The time was right...
Once past thirtysomething and A Year in the Life, TV's family album gets considerably bleaker. Fully assembled nuclear families are scarce on the season's new sitcoms; swinging singles and unattached parents are in. One new twist, however, is a trend to half-hour shows that eschew laugh tracks or live audiences and aim instead for the mixed moods of comedy-drama. The technique does not always work -- witness CBS's Frank's Place, a languid, unfunny variation on Cheers set in a New Orleans Creole restaurant. More promising is The "Slap" Maxwell Story, with Dabney Coleman...