Word: replaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although it began like a replay of the crisis at Three Mile Island, the Ginna accident proved far less serious. According to officials from Rochester Gas and Electric Corp., which owns the plant, and engineers from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a corroded pipe in the reactor's primary cooling loop that carries radioactive water into the plant's steam generator ruptured, contaminating water in the normally nonradioactive secondary loop. The leak also raised the pressure in the secondary loop, triggering a safety valve, which vented the now radioactive steam into the atmosphere. At the same time, slightly radioactive...
...hype now swirling around the I.R.A.s is almost a replay of the fanfare that marked the introduction of the tax-free All Savers Certificates last October. That gimmick proved to be much less popular than anticipated, but financial analysts do not expect the same fate to befall the new I.R.A.s. To begin with, the All Savers Certificates are available only in the form of deposits at banks, S and Ls and credit unions. Moreover, the All Savers program was designed as a temporary measure to aid the ailing financial industry and is due to expire...
...current wave of pacifism in Europe or as dogmatic as the unilateralist ban-the-bomb protests of the '50s. Said Hart: "If it grows into a unilateral thing, that would not be useful. We are talking here of responsible arms control." Nor were the seminars a replay of the rallies of the Viet Nam era. "During the 1960s we were concerned about our boys who were dying overseas," explained U.C.L.A. Philosophy Professor Don Kalish. "Now I'm concerned about myself. It's much closer to home." The discussions were sober and sobering, providing a detailed depiction...
...long after the play has been completed, when the attention of the party has finally been captured and several thousand students turn their bleary eyes to the field, surveying blankly the remnants of a long gain, patiently bearing another interruption and half-expecting to catch it all on instant replay...
This make-shift line-up went into the water 30 minutes before starting time, having to place first or second to qualify for the finals. Dead last at the halfway point, the crew came on to take second. Brooks remembers seeing a TV replay of the race where "Howard Cosell was calling us dead, and then he went absolutely crazy...