Word: risks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have now shifted drastically. For many years the foes of nuclear power, for all their protest rallies, "clamshell alliances" and sit-ins, were very much on the defensive. Their complaints about plant safety had lacked credibility; the exigencies of the nation's energy crisis were unarguable; the fragility and risk, to some degree inherent in many parts of an advanced industrial society, had a common-sense acceptance as inevitable. But the price of progress, like the price of anything, has a ceiling, and for the nuclear power industry, the radioactive gases drifting from Three Mile Island have undeniably raised...
Democratic congressional leaders, meanwhile, insist that they are sympathetic to demands for a balanced budget but do not want to risk the potential chaos of a convention or the straitjacket that an amendment could place on economic policy. These legislators argue that they should take no action until after full discussion. But to some critics, this seems like a strategy for stretching out hearings in the hope that the public's interest will wane before a the public's interest will wane before a vote has to be taken. The Senate held one hearing in early March...
...Weber challenge puts employers in a tighter spot than ever in efforts to correct past racial injustices. If they voluntarily set up programs to redress discrimination against blacks, they risk getting sued by passed-over whites. If they admit their own past discrimination to justify such a program, they risk suits by blacks. If they do nothing, they stand to lose valuable federal contracts and be sued by blacks anyway. As usual, the Justices gave no hint as to how they plan to resolve the legal dilemma. But on their decision, which is expected this spring, hangs a question that...
...Sunbelt the flight of the middle class to the suburbs, and the greediness of banks and unions, achieves nothing, but Auletta notes that New Yorkers have been offered little more. He says to blame "historical and economic forces, everything and everybody, is to blame nobody. We run the risk of learning nothing from what happened to New York. So Auletta looks at each party's involvement in the collapse and outlines specifically how each is responsible...
...primary culprit is the city itself. "At the risk of overdramatization," Auletta cites 21 "original sins" which the city, state and federal governments committed. In addition to rather prosaic "sins" like the growth of the suburbs and high taxes, Auletta reveals financial shenanigans that politicians and bankers employed to allow the city to continue its spendthrift ways. His discussion of the Nelson Rockefeller championing of moral obligation bonds clearly explains how an irresponsible procedure, responsibly put forth, grew into common practice. Moral obligation bonds, designed by then little-known bond lawyer John Mitchell, allowed the state to sell bonds...