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...that would prefer she found an other subject. Her Mr. Deeds is a brick layer named Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz). Earnest and innocent, he pioneered a faster method of doing his job in the Stalinist '50s. But one man's technological breakthrough is an other's speedup: though the government publicizes him as a Stakhanovite, he is resented by other workers. One of them passes him hot bricks during a demonstration, maiming him. When his best friend is accused of the crime, Mateusz fights to free him and is himself placed on show trial. After destalinization...
...worse, lacks the legal and administrative checks that allow small pressure groups to halt billion dollar projects. So confident is Giscard of his ability to press a needed program that the week after the accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island last March, he boldly announced a speedup in nuclear-plant construction...
June 19: Indira Gandhi consolidates her hold on the Indian electorate. Pointing to the dangers posed by Vietnamese troops who have expanded their drive to include an advance on Bangladesh, she reimposes martial law and orders a speedup in nuclear weapons production, threatening to "turn Hanoi into a parking...
After a near-meltdown at Three Mile Island (TMI), the government and the nuclear industry not only continue to press for continued use of nuclear power, but to push for expanded use, less restrictive licensing procedures, a speedup in plant construction-- and they mean to force it on us by creating yet another "oil crisis," thereby forcing us to choose between freezing in the dark and embracing nuclear power. Another cold winter looms ahead; so does an election year...
...industry had clearly suffered a crippling setback. Not only are its plans for expansion now in grave doubt, but the Three Mile Island accident came at a time when President Carter was about to propose a new approach to the nation's energy problems. He had already urged a speedup in putting new nuclear power plants into operation by reducing the years it takes to pass through all of the regulatory challenges. While a case could still be made that bureaucratic indecision and delay ought to be minimized even tougher safety standards would almost inevitably be one result...