Word: restarts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they simply sat back and talked. How do you put your feet up when the deck beneath you is trembling and the winds are howling, in Marsaxlokk Bay and throughout the tattered Soviet empire? This first Bush-Gorbachev summit, which the American President initially proposed as a way to restart the becalmed U.S.-Soviet relationship, was now also the first to take place in the uncertain new world ushered in by the upheavals shaking Eastern Europe. And if this meeting was to be a step in shaping the future, there could be no more appropriate setting than at sea, even...
Lonoff, unable to restart the elevator, pressed an emergency bell several times then yelled for help. In response, several voices told Lonoff to wait in between floor B and C while they brought assistance, she said...
...idea of territorial compromise in advance, but as his part of the bargain he had better not rule it out forever. That would probably be as much flexibility as the U.S. or the Arabs are likely to get out of this Israeli leader. But it might be enough to restart the diplomatic process; and perhaps that process will continue long enough for other Israeli statesmen to decide where it finally leads...
Energy Secretary John Herrington readily admits that safety fell by the wayside in the past as "things got too cozy" with plant contractors. Despite the growing public outcry, however, he plans to restart one tritium-producing reactor at Savannah River in December and another early next year. Herrington, a lawyer and Reagan appointee, has taken commendable steps to infuse a safety- conscious attitude at the weapons facilities. But he has failed to heed complaints from environmentalists and Congressmen who believe the plant should remain closed until DOE files an environmental-impact statement on the 300- sq.-mi. facility...
Herrington assured Reagan that DOE was still capable of making nuclear bombs and announced that the agency plans as early as late December to restart at least one of its beleaguered Savannah River reactors in South Carolina, where production of tritium was halted for safety reasons in August. Still, many question whether DOE will be ready any time soon to make radioactive materials for weapons safely and without further damage to the environment. "The Department of Energy is solving problems as they arise," charged Democratic Congressman Mike Synar of Oklahoma. "What we need is a serious overhaul of DOE oversight...