Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington Gov. Dixy Lee Ray closed the site last week after a spot investigation revealed that trucks hauling radioactive wastes into Washington were violating federal safety procedures...
...spokesman Richard Cunningham said yesterday federal agencies must convince Ray to reopen the Hanford site--the only disposal area in the country currently accepting low-level wastes...
Managing Editor Ray Heard walked into the paper's newsroom one afternoon last week and delivered the brutal message: after 110 years of business, the Montreal Star (circ. 114,000) had published its last edition. The evening daily had lost $14.6 million and 50,000 readers as the result of a bitter eight-month pressmen's strike that ended in February. So the owner, F.P. Publications (the Toronto Globe and Mail and six other Canadian dailies), decided that with the balance sheet red and the broadsheet unread, the Star was better off dead...
Those officials were stricken with a strange sense of de ja vu this week, when Washington Gov. Dixie Lee Ray shut down the Hanford site, claiming that federal agencies were not properly monitoring shipments of the hazardous materials...
...Ray closed the site after a spot check revealed that three of nine trucks carrying waste into her state were violating safety procedures. The site, she said, would remain closed until officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Department of Transportation--the agencies charged with hazardous materials transportation-strengthened their protective measures...