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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administrative-law judges in Wisconsin awarded Beverly $85,700 in worker's compensation after finding that co-workers at the Miller brewery in Milwaukee preyed on him from 1981 to 1983 by taunting him with loud noises. Beverly claimed that employees popped milk cartons, broke beer bottles and even set off fireworks to see his reaction. Helpless in the grip of the disorder, he would throw himself to the floor. Eventually he became so anxious, the judges found, that he could no longer hold a job. The Miller company, which would pay the penalty, plans to appeal the ruling...
...major goal of the project was to catch a flare in the act, mapping all the solar high jinks associated with it from beginning to end. The sun's timing could not have been better. During the first week of observations, it set off several large flares and ejected billions of tons of matter in a prominence that extended more than 200,000 miles into space...
...Department of Energy owns the plants, and private corporations operate them. During the Reagan Administration, the report said, Energy Secretary John S. Herrington inadvertently encouraged unsafe practices with a "buddy bonus system" and a "mind-set" that rewarded production over safety. An unidentified executive who "allowed health and safety to deteriorate" received a big cash bonus, and was praised as an "outstanding manager and leader" by Herrington's Under Secretary Joseph Salgado...
...Hanford, Wash., plutonium finishing plant, managers turned off radiation alarms because high winds sometimes set them...
Responding, a DOE spokeswoman said new Energy Secretary James Watkins knows of the abuses and is determined to remedy them. Ever since taking office Watkins has admitted that changing the DOE mind-set may not be as easy as "changing the equipment used in the plants...