Word: scared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Douglas's standard reply to criticisms from the nuclear industry is that they haven't seen the film and he "was just trying to make a really good thriller." In that ambition, Douglas admits, he may have succeeded all too well. "The China Syndrome" will scare people and the nuclear power industry because it not only works as a thriller, but also is highly realistic and convincing...
...power plant and prepares you for the brush with Armegaddon that follows. "The China Syndrome," as Douglas, its producer, says, is in the mold of "an old-fashioned thriller," and if you ever doubt fail-safe technology or wonder about the news you get on the tube, it will scare you. But see it anyway. It's worth...
...made: the Harvard Corporation's current orthodoxy, which sanctions investment in South Africa, bolsters the profits of the Nestle corporation, and glorifies a man who made his fortune in the mines of South Africa, is a more pernicious denial of free expression than the orthodoxy President Bok tries to scare us with. As of now, the seven men on the Harvard Corporation make decisions on moral issues for the Harvard community. Isn't it more likely that the current situation, not Bok's hypothetical case, inhibits "a junior faculty member hoping for tenure, a young administrator seeking a promotion...
...that budget-balancing should be the only issue on its agenda. Congressmen, too, though opposed to the whole idea of a convention, would obviously prefer one with narrow authority. In fact, the dire warnings against a convention run wild come only from opponents who are using them as a scare tactic; convention supporters seem perfectly willing to limit themselves...
...fallen. Calculating that they could not win a popular battle, they are calling in law professors and raising a standard in defense of a constitution which is in no danger. It would hearten those who agree with their basic stand against a balanced-budget amendment if they dropped the scare tactics and fought the issue out where it belongs, not in legal briefs, but in the legislatures and polls...