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...regulator nor the licensees paid much attention to. The post-Millstone emphasis on "rigid" compliance, another N.E.I. official has complained, "is almost as bad as NRC's reaction to Three Mile Island." Inside the agency, a rift developed between Jackson and the senior staff that had let things slip. Jackson ordered a safety and compliance review of all U.S. nuclear plants, offering utilities a two-year amnesty to correct problems they identify. "We must demonstrate vigilance, objectivity and consistency," she says. "I don't accept the argument that compliance is somehow at odds with safety...
...know what my Medical School colleagues would think, but increasingly, medical students look both ways down the hall, then slip into my office," he said. "There is a curiosity growing about this...
...Crimson's heart breaking 2-1 loss in the ECAC finals last year but also to the two other times the teams met this year. In both match-ups, Harvard played hard physical hockey and proved it could keep up with Cornell. However, the Crimson let both games slip away from it in the third period, losing by a single goal each time. To keep that from happening again, the Crimson is going to have to play a full 60 minutes of hard and aggressive hockey against a team known for its physical play...
Those who perpetuate the idea that political processes can help us to slip out of the network of joys and pains that social relations create fail to account for the sense in which the engine driving us cannot move without these fuels. Actually, the forces that govern us are better described as dialectical, involving both our individual impulses and the dictates of our social surroundings...
...When I slip him a vague query about "business in Harvard Square," he's on to my intent immediately, and offers answers remarkably similar to the ones I heard at Noke's. Except he layers his discussion with economic jargon...