Word: phenix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overall clothing sponsor, will provide the track and field athletes with such items as presentation suits to be worn on the victory stand. The arrangement, says Vitale, has already paid dividends in the form of a spate of new licensing contracts. One of the largest so far, from Phenix of Japan, is worth a minimum of $3.5 million to the Italian company...
...place on death row. The reason is an apparently unique question of double jeopardy. It arises from the fact that while Becky Heath's body was found in La Grange, Ga., her murderers picked her up, or perhaps kidnaped her, from her home 45 miles away in Phenix City, Ala. And after some of the defendants had confessed or pleaded guilty in La Grange, the prosecutor across the border in Phenix City announced that he also planned to try them, on conspiracy and kidnap-murder charges, and would make use of their Georgia confessions and guilty pleas. After...
...have prosecuted in the same case, in part no doubt to avoid the extra work load. In the Heath case, however, Becky's father wanted to see his daughter's killers get the death penalty, and he urged the second prosecution. William Benton, the district attorney in Phenix City, had his own reasons. "A state has a responsibility to protect its citizens," he says. "The fact that someone else did what they thought was right in their area doesn't preclude us from doing what we think is right about something that happened in our area...
...Mile Island incident, other industrialized nations are moving rapidly in the field of nuclear power. The most aggressive program now belongs to France, which plans to draw 75% of its electricity from the atom by 1990. In 1983 France will complete work on its massive 1,200-megawatt Super Phenix, the country's second fast-breeder reactor. France also leads in developing types of nuclear-waste disposal technology...
Most striking of all is the French commitment to fast-breeder reactors like Super Phenix, which produce or "breed" more fuel than they consume. That is because breeders, which are fueled by plutonium and uranium 238, generate more plutonium than is "burned" during the nuclear cycle. The danger is that plutonium, if it winds up in the wrong hands, can also be used to make nuclear weapons. For this reason President Carter is opposed to the construction of the experimental fast-breeder on the bank of the Clinch River in Tenn. Skeptics argue that Super Phenix, which will cost...