Word: suspendable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jackson's critics remain unimpressed. Chief among them is Galatis, a tenacious and deeply religious man who spent three years trying to get Northeast and the NRC to abide by NRC rules. To force the issue he had to go public, filing a petition that asked the NRC to suspend Millstone's license...
Northeast eventually made the fuel-pool cooling-system changes Galatis demanded, but the NRC rejected his plea for it to suspend the company's license, insisting that "the relative safety significance" of the fuel-pool issue "is low," a conclusion disputed by a host of industry-watchdog engineers. The "pervasive noncompliance" that Galatis uncovered, the agency admitted, did pose a potential threat to public safety. The NRC informed Galatis in December that its long-term shutdown of Millstone "constitutes a partial grant of the petitioner's requests." The agency is delaying a decision on enforcement actions until the U.S. Attorney...
...them whistle blowers and others just quietly disgusted, Galatis is convinced that despite appearances, nothing has changed at Northeast or the NRC. Galatis' lawyer, Ernest Hadley, has filed a new petition on behalf of a Millstone engineer named Al Cizek, alleging more wrongdoing and calling on the NRC to suspend Millstone's license if Northeast racks up more safety violations. These skeptics believe the NRC's new vigilance is mostly for show. As evidence, they point to a February working lunch between Northeast's Kenyon and the NRC's new executive director, Joe Callen. According to a Northeast memo describing...
...froze the distribution of $68 million in gold bars they still hold from the Nazi hoard. It is the last portion of the spoils retrieved by the Allies after the war and was supposed to be parceled out to the remaining nations that claim it. Bronfman advised Clinton to suspend any action until the three Allies decide whether this gold--symbolically at least--was melted down from private Jewish assets rather than national treasuries and should be given to Holocaust victims...
Every human being has the power to use his own mind, come to his own conclusions, to form his own value-judgments. One can choose to suspend his judgement and conform to the group, but that is a choice. And if one wants to lead a confident, productive and happy life, it is crucial that he choose to think for himself...