Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hekmatyrar, in the most optimistic reaction yet by a top guerrilla leader, said strong signs have emerged that the Soviets want a political settlement...
...course, for most of the rising and risen stars of the art heaven that is New York, being misunderstood is as good as being understood--if the public reaction is positive and the buyer has signed the check...
...first time in the current wave of protests that the authorities had arrested students. Reaction from their campus compatriots was not long in coming. Thursday evening, some 3,000 students gathered in front of the home of Peking University President Ding Shisun, demanding that he intercede on behalf of the detainees, who they claimed were 24 in number. Speaking through a megaphone, Ding promised to seek their release. But the crowd was in no mood to disperse, despite subzero temperatures and a fresh two-inch snowfall. Instead, it picked up additional demonstrators in a march through the campus and from...
...explosion at the Soviet nuclear plant in Chernobyl last April sent a shudder through the Hanford authorities. The Washington facility is the only U.S. Government-owned nuclear plant that uses graphite, as Chernobyl did, to control the atomic reaction. Also, Hanford is one of the few U.S. nuclear plants that, like Chernobyl, do not have a protective dome to prevent the release of accidental radiation. The Department of Energy appointed a commission to re-evaluate Hanford's safety, and the panel declared last month that an accident like the Chernobyl explosion was impossible. It added, however, that the reactor should...
...over the past two years at the two plants that provided fuel for the reactor. The worst of these occurred on Sept. 29, when workmen moving plutonium liquid from one container to another failed to shut off some adjoining pipes -- an oversight that could have led to a chain reaction. The Government closed both plants in early October...