Word: soon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meany is the AFL-CIO," asserts Fred Kroll, president of the railway, airline and steamship clerks' union. No one ever questioned Meany's dedication to the movement. The second of ten children of an Irish family in The Bronx, Meany became an apprentice plumber at 16. He soon proved as skilled at manipulating people as pipes. Stolid in appearance, sometimes slow of speech, he was easy to underestimate. But in any encounter, few rivals could match his wits or the forcefulness with which he pressed his views...
...customarily excludes its own employees from the "population by a deft act of definition. Undoubtedly injury will be concentrated among the workers handling radioactive materials--in the mines, in transport, and in the plants. But unless the workers are themselves isolated from members of the opposite sex, they will soon pass on their damaged genes to the general population--not a trivial factor, since the industry uses large numbers of people, sometimes called sponges, who are not regular employees, to absorb in a few minutes or hours the legal quota of radiation for three months. The next day, they...
...cannot expect the federal government to help control the menace of nuclear power. Although President Carter ran on a platform of using nuclear energy as a last resort, as soon as he assumed office he began to argue that rapid development of nuclear power was our only way out of the energy crisis. Under his administration, the government has blatantly promoted the nuclear industry instead of regulating it. After taking a seemingly strong stand against the Clinch River experimental breeder reactor, Carter proposed that Congress explore the possibility of alternative breeders. Predictably, Congress voted to appropriate funds...
...very early age, when I was dragged to a seedy little known theater in Detroit to see a "beautiful and sensitive film" and enrich my culturally deprived life. This place was formerly a neighborhood show that had been forced out of business by television, but with foresight that soon proved brilliant, the owners had installed an espresso machine, hung up some foreign posters, raised the admission and re-christened it the Studio Theatre. It soon became a haven for arty types from nearby Wayne State University and other hangovers from the "beat" generation. The message here seemed to be that...
...portrays, once when a newlywed couple journeys to nearby Milan where troops march a group of demonstrators to their doom, and again when a village festival brings angry young orators who give speeches about human rights and democracy. Blank faces watch the troops and the speakers: the troops are soon eclipsed by the wonders of the city and the angry speeches no longer heard when someone spots a gold coin lying unclaimed on the ground. And though the ending hints at some stirrings of unrest among the families after one of their group has been evicted by the landowner, this...