Word: scares
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...most one-third of a core is in the pool, even though plants across the country routinely move full cores into pools crowded with older cores. If the NRC based its calculations on that scenario, says Lochbaum, "it would exceed the radiation-dose limits set by Congress and scare people to death. But the NRC won't do it." The NRC's Taylor told TIME that the agency analyzes dose rates at the time a plant opens--when its pool is empty. The law, he said, "does not contain a provision for rereview...
...rhetoric may invoke the First Amendment, but the networks' more pressing concern is the bottom line. The V chip will, inevitably, reduce the potential audience for shows marked with the scarlet letter. That means advertising revenue will go down. What's more, a violence label may scare off many advertisers and thus cause programmers to steer clear of provocative shows. "The thing nobody is taking into account," says Law & Order creator Dick Wolf, "is that there's going to be a V-chip warning on Homicide, NYPD Blue, Law & Order, ER, Chicago Hope--any of the adult dramas that deal...
Engler's work on last week's welfare and Medicaid compromise can be seen as a further refinement of that strategy. In January the Governor threw a scare into some true believers by announcing a limited-area research effort called Project Zero. The still sketchy project involves intensive (and presumably expensive) intervention by welfare workers to learn why some people won't work; it includes no time limits, so some thought it signaled Engler's opposition to the congressional Republicans' five-years-and-you're-out philosophy. His fellow Governors knew better. Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson reports that Engler...
...fact that you have to apply might scare some people away," Ellner says...
This year, we need to find a voice that will speak for us. We need to find a voice that will make the tough sacrifices today to insure our solvency and stability tomorrow. We need to find a voice that will not needlessly scare seniors and political action committees. We need to find a voice that will not lend itself to demagoguery and the protection of a rapidly deteriorating status quo. We need to find a voice that will make the courageous and potentially unpopular decisions now to preserve the future of this nation...