Word: ramey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show," a friend says. "Instead, she took command." Before Ray's reign, the AEC was notably reluctant to discuss the environmental impact of many key policies-except in court. To help change that situation, Ray outmaneuvered two of the agency's most effective and powerful figures, James Ramey and Milton Shaw. Ramey, an AEC commissioner since 1962, was the liaison man with Congress. Shaw, director of reactor development and technology, was the supertechnocrat who got things done. Because of their persuasive lobbying, the Senate-House Committee on Atomic Energy, originally set up to be a watchdog group, never...
...surf or posing seductively on swings. The resulting volume is closer to Playboy than to Gray's Anatomy. The reaction to the book was predictable. In a letter to the 1,000-member Association of Women in Science (AWIS) of which she is president-elect, Dr. Estelle Ramey of Georgetown University's School of Medicine branded the book "an obscene denigration of women" that "demeans the whole profession of medicine." Many of her colleagues and even some students apparently agreed. When Dr. Ramey proposed a boycott of the book's publisher, Williams & Wilkins decided to revise...