Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PIERCE stuck open, and some steam generators boiled dry within minutes. Today, operators drill to handle multiple failures, and all 2,500 licensed reactor operators in the U.S. have gone through the sequence that occurred at T.M.I. In Soddy-Daisy, Term., an annual two-week refresher course covering multiple breakdowns is offered by the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...with America, with its institutions of democracy and justice. He does not see the ultimate goal of any social movement, taken to its wildest extreme; he does not feel the urgency to change--the fire in the streets. Viorst is content to believe that the Movement ran out of steam and conviction--and something to complain about...
John Connally, meanwhile, seemed to be running out of steam. And cash. He had pinned a great deal-perhaps too much-on the outcome in South Carolina, frankly admitting that his national campaign depended on his winning there or finishing a close second. Said Connally: "This is the only place we've really worked." To support his cause, Connally enlisted two of the state's most popular and powerful politicians: former Governor James Edwards and Republican Senator Strom Thurmond. In particular, Thurmond was campaigning for Connally as though his own career were at stake. With the Texan...
...Says Sy Zachar, an analyst working on a study of physical plant maintenance funded by the Carnegie Corp.: "It's easy to find some foundation eager to donate a new tax-deductible library or a shiny new anything. But what donor wants to put a plaque on a steam pipe?" At the University of California at Berkeley, administrators nickname the list of "deferred maintenance" problems the "Crummy and Seedy Project...
...stand up to him, but don't fight," says Bramson. His advice: look Sherman straight in the eye, call him by name and state your disagreement with defusing phrases such as "in my opinion," and "it's my judgment that ..." Then let the tank blow off some steam. Says Bramson: "Sherman tanks are experts at escalating. If you fight you lose...