Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students demanded a resolution to the controversy within two-weeks, calling the conflict "detrimental to our education." The faculty union vote overwhelmingly to strike if progress in negotiations had not been made by the end of the student boycott...
...Receive half-credit for courses in progress, leave the college in good standing, and reapply in the future...
...much on the defensive. Their complaints about plant safety had lacked credibility; the exigencies of the nation's energy crisis were unarguable; the fragility and risk, to some degree inherent in many parts of an advanced industrial society, had a common-sense acceptance as inevitable. But the price of progress, like the price of anything, has a ceiling, and for the nuclear power industry, the radioactive gases drifting from Three Mile Island have undeniably raised the price?and public consciousness about the risks?of nuclear power. Just how high rests in large measure on how Pennsylvania's nightmare ends...
...have in effect banned construction of new power plants until some better method of disposing of the waste can be found. Three Mile Island can only strengthen the hands of some Congressmen who have been insisting that licensing of new plants be halted unless a series of deadlines for progress on waste disposal are met, a move that could halt atomic power construction...
Crucial to progress toward a broader peace is help from Saudi Arabia and Jordan. James Noyes, a Saudi affairs expert at Berkeley's Institute of International Studies, observes that Saudi Arabia is in "an exquisite dilemma. It has to support Sadat but condemn him at the same time." Without help, Sadat could fall, throwing the future role of Egypt into confusion...