Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly pleased by NRC's compromise decision, Lee did something of an about-face. At week's end, he predicted that the "outages"-jargon for when a generator is out of the power grid-would be of "very short duration." Certainly, he said, they would not last into the peak summer season. But Harold Denton, the NRC's reactor regulations chief, was more skeptical. Something of a hero in the nuclear field for his cool troubleshooting at Three Mile Island in the wake of March's accident, he insisted that all B & W pressurized water reactors...
...roads across the country. Never a strong point of the Soviet economy, transportation became a major national problem as a late spring delayed necessary repairs to the system. Energy was also a problem. Parts of the country suffered from a cutoff of Iranian natural gas, and oil production fell short of planned output...
After playing the first five holes without any untoward incident. Raffi took a triple-bogey six on the par three 6th. The Winchester native, clad in canary yellow from head to toe, crushed his six-iron from the tee, but it hit the embankment just short of the green and rolled back into Casco Bay. He played his lost ball shot from the ladies' tee and this time banked a nine-iron over the green...
...state that new precision-guided, highly accurate technologies are "revolutionizing" the battlefield, yet request funding for increasingly vulnerable, cost-ineffective weapon platforms such as aircraft carriers. And the federal government voices concern over inflation, yet expands spending in a sector which is one of the most inflationary. In short, military spending and force deployments are increasingly in conflict with stated federal policy objectives and military strategies...
...think that in the long run most of us are concerned about the standing of Harvard in the sense of that word, and perhaps in the medium and short run as well, the standing of Harvard will be better served by taking an aggressive posture on the question...