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Word: stillness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failed to take the logical next step--recommending a moratorium on construction of new nuclear plants. It did, however, point to the need for such a ban, concluding that even if President Carter, Congress, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the nuclear industry adopt all of its recommendations, there is still "no guarantee that there will be no serious future nuclear accidents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Accidents Will Happen | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

Historically, Chrysler has played weak sister to General Motors and Ford, suffering from a combination of financial mismanagement and lack of foresight. Chrysler still has not quite admitted that the Age of the Big Car has ended. This fall, Lee lacocca, chairman of Chrysler, insisted that the auto industry's biggest profits were to be found not in small, but in intermediate-sized luxury cars, loaded with special options...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Free Lunch | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

Finley called the next day to say he could not write the month in the majors guarantee into the contract. It was just a legal technicality. Finley said. Mike still had his word on the deal...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Mike Stenhouse Meets Charles O. Finley | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

...Stenhouse cannot negotiate with another team, and if he wants to return to Harvard, he'll have to wait until June to be drafted by another team. But through a complicated loophole in the regulations, the baseball commissioner has allowed him to go into the January 1980 draft, while still enrolled as an undergraduate...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Mike Stenhouse Meets Charles O. Finley | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

...risk taken when wastes are shipped clear across the country for burial. About eight months ago, the recommendation was sent to the White House for review. In keeping with a growing tradition, nothing has been done about the DOE study either--President Carter, his aides say, is still making up his mind...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Wasting Away | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

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