Word: presentability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also invested $7.5 billion in energy exploration and development, with 41% of it in the U.S. Partly because prices and profits are up, domestic drilling is booming. The number of oil rigs at work in the U.S. has jumped from 1,929 in April to 2,391 at present and is expected to reach 2,600 by year's end. It is highly questionable whether stiffer controls or nationalization would spur more efficiency. The record of the Post Office and the heavily regulated railroads is hardly encouraging...
...czar of nuclear regulation would be required to improve greatly the training of all nuclear power plant control room operators. The commission also wants the control rooms to be redesigned, claiming that ''problems with the control room contributed to the confusion during the accident.'' At present, NRC is continuing to license control rooms with ''outdated technology...
...waste-disposal problem is getting worse. Scientists cannot agree on the safest method of permanently burying nuclear garbage, some of which remains radioactive for thousands of years. At present, the most highly radioactive wastes, such as spent fuel rods, are stored under water in plant "swimming pools," but reactor operators are running out of pool space. Wastes that emit less radioactivity are placed in sealed containers and trucked to dump sites for burial. However, some of the containers have leaked, either underground or in transit, and dump sites have been closed in Hanford, Wash., and Beatty, Nev. This leaves only...
Under the present rules, students must take three A.P. exams and earn a minimum score of 3 on each...
Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty on undergraduate education, and chairman of CUE, said yesterday he will represent the ERG plan before the council. Davis did not present a persuasive case, Bowersock said, adding Davis might have evidence that four AP exams qualified students more for sophomore standing than three exams, but "I didn...