Word: riley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stoppard's protagonist George Riley is a middleaged inventor whose inventions, like a tape recorder thay plays "Rule Britannia" when the clock strikes twelve, never seem to grab the public's fancy. As a result, he lives off ten shillings a week provided by his rambunctious 18-year old daughter Linda, who works in Fancy Goods at Woolworth's. He refuses to collect unemployment compensation; that is for the masses, not for an inventor. With a new ten-bob note every "Meatless Saturday," George heads for the pub, where the locals indulge his fantasies. He is a man lost...
...Harry the horseplayer and the dopey seaman Able (from the new navy) play on George's wild dreams until they convince him that he, with Harry, can revolutionize the envelope industry. Soon George derails again, wanders into the past in a monologue, and we return to the Riley home, a place where, as George explains, "I give nothing, I gain nothing, it is nothing...
...Riley said he hopes to reduce the level of waste accepted at the Chem Nuclear site--one of three operating in the country--from 250,000 in 1979 to 100,000 cubic ft. per month by late 1981. He added that the two-year time period would allow nuclear-waste-producing states to establish their own burial sites...
States should be given the authority to enforce compliance of safety regulations governing the handling of nuclear wastes within their boundaries, Riley said. He added, "States must have the ability to protect the health and safety of their citizens...
...Riley outlined steps that Congress, the Department of Energy and the State Planning Council should take in formulating a comprehensive national plan for the disposal of wastes. He said they should...