Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around noon, I looked out my office window from the eighth floor of Holyoke Center. To my horror, I saw a man beating a woman, down on the corner of Dunster and Winthrop Streets. As I watched him smack her repeatedly on the side of the head, and forcibly prevent her from running away, I dialed 911 for help. Between the time that I first saw this spectacle and finished telling the police where and what it was, I must have watched at least 30 people walk down Dunster Street--without stopping. There is a lot of traffic at that...
...EXAMPLE of this negligence, according to the former project manager of the NRC, Robert Pollard, is the plan for new vents in reactor cooling systems. If a reactor overheats, hydrogen bubbles or steam form in the cooling system and prevent the coolant from flowing to the core. This happened...
...wording was worked out with the cancer institute and supported by the institute as an educational effort. It helped spark a continuing public interest in high-fiber food. But the suggestion that All-Bran might prevent cancer violated the FDA's ban on health claims...
...send them; thus experts think the pirate signal probably came from a TV station or other commercial facility. Wherever the stunt originated, TV executives were not amused. HBO has lodged a complaint with the FCC, threatened to prosecute the pirate and made technical adjustments that it claims will prevent any repeat attack. "He probably thinks this was just a prank," says HBO Vice President David Pritchard. "But the fact is someone has interfered with authorized satellite transmissions." The incident has raised concerns that other satellite-borne communications, including sensitive data transmitted by business and the military, could be similarly disrupted...
...Washington, a collection of consumer, environmental and scientific groups known as the Coalition of Environmental/Safe Energy Organizations called for a complete phaseout of nuclear power plants in the U.S. In Pennsylvania, protesters in Lancaster and Dauphin counties vowed to increase efforts to prevent the reopening of the reactor at Three Mile Island that was not involved in the 1979 accident there. In New Hampshire and on New York's Long Island, antinuclear forces stepped up their campaigns against licensing of the Seabrook and Shoreham plants, arguing that what happened north of Kiev could just as easily happen there. "The accident...