Word: siting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Energy Secretary John Herrington will announce the preferred site next summer. A major hurdle remains, however: following last week's elimination of 17 states, proponents fear that congressional enthusiasm for the project may collide with efforts to reduce the budget...
...country where ritual is often the closest thing to religion, Mickey- san's Imperial Palace has in less than five years become something of a national pilgrimage site. In 1987 roughly 1 million schoolchildren, who would previously have been taken to Japan's great historical sites, were brought to the park. Last week, as people across the nation gathered at shrines to usher in an auspicious New Year, Tokyo Disneyland stayed open for 36 straight hours, serving as a kind of alternative temple. By day's end 200,000 votaries had observed the country's most important holiday...
...matter: the movie had a high awww-Q. Audiences rushed to indulge its inanities and curl into its warmth, to google like proud relatives when the infant appears at a construction site in a pink hard hat, or when Selleck tries, too manfully, to diaper his fidgety bundle for the first time. There is nothing sinister about the success of a bad picture that makes people feel good. Imagine: people want to enjoy themselves at the movies. Sometimes they can convince themselves they had a fine time even at an inferior show. It guarantees they get their money's worth...
...negotiators of the recent treaty was the verification of those provisions beyond the scope of surveillance technologies. Satellites can count missiles and silos and bombers, but they cannot monitor the disassembly of nuclear warheads. To be assured that this is done, both sides were forced to rely on on-site inspections and the most sophisticated technology of all: the human...
...should step right in and buy them up--before the University has time to bail them out like they did the Hasty Pudding club. A new student center could be constructed on their land, or the buildings could be sold to pay for a student center on, say, the site of the Fly Club, it they were willing to sell...