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JUST OUTSIDE WASHINGTON D.C. today, more than a month after Ray shut down the Hanford site, the three governors will sit down with NRC officials and talk about their problems. The issue, though not very attractive, seems fairly clear-cut. The nation is producting a lot of radioactive waste--ranging from the really dangerous stuff that reactors generate to laboratory brands no more radioactive than the human body--and there is no place...
When the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court meet to discuss and vote on cases on Friday mornings, they begin with 'he simple ritual of shaking hands. Then they sit down to decide on some of the nation's most sensitive, sometimes most divisive issues. No reporter, no lobbyist, no aide, not even a messenger is allowed in the paneled conference room. The Justices are left alone to argue the law, their principles, their consciences. Theirs is not an abstract debate: comfortably hazy concepts like ''liberty'' and ''equality'' must...
Still, Fraser has a yen to see European-style ''co-determination'' spread in the U.S. In West Germany, Sweden and Denmark, workers sit on supervisory boards. Studies suggest that they have little impact on corporate policy-for good or ill. Notes one German industrialist...
...fans--those who sit in the expensive box seats along Brattle St. and the low-rent bleachers around the rest of the city--root for the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) squad, the New York Yankees of Cambridge hardball politics...
Both Bok and Wolfman agree that as the 1985 renewal date for the 1977 agreement draws closer, the Committee will have to sit down and, in Bok's words, "figure out what's going on." Bok explains that the Committee originally designed to draft the 1977 agreement, is not expected "to meet regularly with a regular agenda. We're not anxious to proliferate bureaucracies," he adds. If the Joint Policy Committee "continues to exist" on paper, it is ready to be called to the board room if and when the occasion arises. "You can never tell when something will call...