Word: prizewining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Media Campaign. The friends of nuclear power-an odd assortment of business executives, labor leaders, prominent politicians from both parties, some black leaders and nine Nobel-prizewin-ning scientists-waged mostly a media campaign. They contended, correctly, that no one has ever been killed in a civilian nuclear power plant accident, and that the odds against one, given present safety standards, are very high. (One federal study estimated that, if the U.S. contained 100 nuclear plants, an accident severe enough to kill 1,000 people would happen literally once in a million years...
After the death of Marilyn Monroe in 1962, Japan's Nobel-prizewin-ning novelist Yasunari Kawabata (Snow Country) said: "If it was a case of suicide, then it was better to see no notes left behind. A silent death is an endless word." When Kawabata, at 72, took his own life last month, that observation of a decade ago became his own epitaph: he left no notes...
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