Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sent a shudder through the Hanford authorities. The Washington facility is the only U.S. Government-owned nuclear plant that uses graphite, as Chernobyl did, to control the atomic reaction. Also, Hanford is one of the few U.S. nuclear plants that, like Chernobyl, do not have a protective dome to prevent the release of accidental radiation. The Department of Energy appointed a commission to re-evaluate Hanford's safety, and the panel declared last month that an accident like the Chernobyl explosion was impossible. It added, however, that the reactor should be shut down temporarily for a $50 million series...
Under the guidelines, Pretoria will be able to regulate the movements of students to prevent fraternization with militants, and to close the schools to nonstudent groups. With new authority to disallow politically objectionable classroom materials, the department is certain to shut down, by police action if necessary, "people's education" classes, which had apparently helped provoke Botha's decree...
...Helms, the former CIA director and Ambassador to Iran, who counseled seven Presidents over three decades, noted how, sooner or later, "they all felt like Gulliver, bound down by a thousand regulations and laws and the fear of leaks whenever they tried to do anything quickly and secretly to prevent trouble." Then pretty soon, says Helms, they began to lose heart in a thousand small ways that diminished their leadership...
Dean Daniel C. Tosteson said in a December letter to Harvard doctors that he will appoint a small committee of senior faculty members to help him develop procedures to prevent fraud...
Despite that failure, many South Africans and foreign observers regard Mandela as the only person who can prevent a race war in his country. "This man is the last hope for a negotiated solution between blacks and whites," says Helen Suzman, the strongest antiapartheid voice in white South Africa...