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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts Attorney General, an opponent of the controversial Seabrook nuclear power plant, filed suit Friday against the Coalition for Reliable Energy, charging that the pro-Seabrook alliance engages in "deceptive" advertising practices...
...suit is just the latest salvo in an ongoing controversy between the state and proponents of Seabrook. Last week, Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis said he would fight the opening of the New Hampshire plant despite a proposal by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that frees the way for the owners of Seabrook to get evacuation plans approved without state input...
Coors seems to oppose 'closed shops'--companies in which all workers are required to join the plant union. Instead, he feels that employees should be able to decide whether or not they want to join. And he puts the company's dollars behind this--the brewery donates to organizations such as the National Right to Work Committee, a group dedicated to the concept, "everyone must have the right but not be compelled to join labor unions...
...governor is responsible for protecting the people. Without having a governor certify that he could protect the people within a 10-mile radius of a plant is just totally ridiculous...
...that Chu's Houston lab had pushed that temperature 5 degrees higher -- to 98 K. Under such conditions -- far less extreme than those required only a few years ago -- superconducting technology might eventually become inexpensive and even commonplace. Possible applications: superconducting cables that could transmit electricity from a power plant to a distant city with essentially no energy loss; practical versions of trains that "fly" ) just above their tracks at hundreds of miles an hour, cushioned on magnetic fields; more widespread use of magnetic resonance imaging machines, which take sharp pictures of the soft tissues of the body. Says Northwestern...