Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also began actions yesterday to avoid future cooling system breakdowns in other nuclear plants around the country. The commission ordered officials at seven nuclear plants to explain their plans to prevent accidents similar to the one at Three Mile Island last Wednesday...
...mind. He could take the dramatic step of immediate decontrol, or he could choose the more modest, but politically safer option of gradually lifting controls on specified types of U.S. oil over two years. Carter is likely to ask Congress to include an excess profits tax that would prevent the oil companies from reaping a sudden bonanza. But whether he will urge that this tax be rebated to low-income families, be set aside for oil exploration or used to reduce his budget deficit apparently was undecided last week...
...four years we arrested thoughtful consideration of what we ought to be doing in the world while we rooted out the facts of these repellent intrigues and devised means to prevent them from recurring. We learned during this national catharsis that there is no Fail-Safe system to guarantee that truth will out. So it is the most natural thing in the world that the U.S. sensitivity to truth-or the lack of it-in the presidency is about as finely tuned as any national instinct. For the man in the White House, there is no escape from the facts...
...agribusiness interests put their political muscle behind tariffs and import quotas. Wealthy shipowners lavish contributions on legislators who support the Jones Act, which requires that U.S. flagships carry all cargo among domestic ports. Small but vocal groups-the membership of the 185 U.S. antinuclear organizations totals roughly 35,000-prevent the shift from imported oil to nuclear power...
...shows a near disaster at an atomic-powered electrical generating plant located uncomfortably near Los Angeles. The film also depicts the utility company that owns the plant and the contractor that built it resorting to lies, corruption and violence to prevent the public from discovering how narrowly a disaster was averted, how large is the potential for similar incidents in the future−and never mind the sizable body of scientific opinion about the improbability of a chain of accidents anything like that posited by the film...