Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their concern. A few days earlier, Building 771 at the Government's Rocky Flats plutonium-processing plant in Colorado became the second weapons facility to be shut down in less than two months, after three people were exposed to radioactive material. Simultaneously, a Government report charged DOE-run weapons-research labs with lax security during visits by foreign experts, including some from Soviet bloc countries...
Officials at the Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore research centers, for their part, flatly denied that any unauthorized visitors have had access to classified material and insisted that their security is reliable...
...power plants in Texas, Pennsylvania and California. Like any other coal-fired generator, the 180-megawatt plant now under construction in Uncasville will spew carbon dioxide, the chief culprit ! in the globe-warming greenhouse effect. But acting on a recommendation from the World Resources Institute, a Washington environmental-policy research center, AES has voluntarily donated $2 million in seed money to a CARE project in Guatemala designed to stave off the climatic crisis by replanting depleted forests...
...term, all eyes are focused on the pivotal figure of Justice Anthony Kennedy. Nominated by President Reagan last year, Kennedy, 52, could be the man who finally tips the scales to the right. "Can Justice Kennedy be the answer to conservatives' prayers?" asks Patrick McGuigan of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation. "All the early data are good." Indeed, in 13 cases last term in which the court split 5 to 4, Kennedy voted with a conservative majority eight times, including the stunning decision to reconsider Runyon. Says University of Virginia government professor David O'Brien, a court specialist...
...president of Galanos Originals from 1983 until 1985, insists that Galanos had told him that Mrs. Reagan generally did not pay for dresses and that the only time she returned one was when she wanted it repaired. Blazakis, who left the Galanos firm on friendly terms, has done extensive research for a critical book he is writing about the Reagans, including the First Lady's clothes-borrowing practices...