Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beset by safety problems and mismanagement, the Long Island Lighting Co.'s $5.4 billion Shoreham nuclear plant has been denied permission to operate at full power since it was completed in 1984. Reason: lack of an approved evacuation plan. As community opposition has grown, the facility has been the subject of legal and political wrangling. Last week a federal jury found LILCO and its former president, Wilfred Uhl, guilty of lying to state officials about Shoreham's progress in 1978 and 1984 in order to obtain rate increases to help finance the project. Uhl and LILCO were fined $22.8 million...
...Guinness Book of World Records says that mystery writer John Creasey in England published more than 500 books," says Isaac Asimov. "But it seems fair to say that no one has written more books on more subjects than I." The vertical pronoun frequently occurs in the author's conversation, but there is as much self-concealment as self-promotion in his talk. As he approaches his 70th year, for example, Asimov has come to see himself merely as a "born explainer." Yet explaining implies understanding, and there is very little in this world that Asimov does not understand. If something...
Bogosian wrote and played this role last year off-Broadway, and when he sticks to the old script, he brings the thing to life onscreen. So, at first, does director Oliver Stone. He makes a voice in the dark seem a perfect subject for motion pictures. The camera prowls with a purpose; the movie gleams like Formica lighted by witchcraft...
...parents and the outside consultant." Even the most personal part of the application -- the essay -- is putty for professional packagers. This fall < Matthew Tucker, a high school senior from Wilton, Conn., wanted to write about his cross-country cycling trip, but his consultant considered the subject too prosaic. At her suggestion, he switched to juggling, one of his hobbies. "She didn't write my essay," Tucker says. "She just helped me to get a good idea." And, he admits, to "find the right words...
...college acceptance -- like so many other aspects of American life -- becoming a matter of packaging over substance? "The whole process is not unlike the selling of the President," says William Mason, Bowdoin's admissions director. But most high school students find the question beside the point. "You're subject to the system," said a world-weary senior. "So, you've got to play the game." Roger Ailes could not have said it better...