Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delays, the expenditure of $4.9 billion and the arrest of more than 3,000 protesters, the controversial Diablo Canyon nuclear plant last week started low-power testing. But within six hours of operation, plant engineers noticed that a stuck valve had begun channeling nonradioactive water into a holding tank instead of into the reactor's cooling system. Ten minutes after the discovery, however, the valve was closed, and testing continued. "We expect events like this to take place," said George Sarkisian, a spokesman for Pacific Gas & Electric, which operates the plant. "It's all part...
...Answering an advertisement in the back of a "Robot Men of Mars" comic book. Beaver and Weekly mail off $2.50 for a "Genuine Florid Alligator "But when the critter arrives, the two realize they have no where to keep it and are forced to slash it in the toilet tank...
...Marc Stepp. "When I saw those numbers, I was stunned." Management Guru Peter Drucker, writing in the Wall Street Journal, called for voluntary curbs on top-executive paychecks, maintaining that if companies do not control themselves Congress will set up restrictions. The Democracy Project, a New York City think tank headed by former Naderite Mark Green, released a study criticizing "excessive" executive salaries...
...sides by making nuclear disarmament a militarily advantageous goal. He believes that this is possible, and that the process may even be underway. In a fascinating chapter, he discusses the growing use of precision guided munitions (PGM), "small accurate missiles with non-nuclear warheads, mainly designed to kill tanks or airplanes." These small but effective weapons, now widely deployed in Europe and the Middle East, indicate, says Dyson, a trend towards smaller and more accurate armaments. He likens their effectiveness and size to that of a David against a tank-sized Goliath...
...should not frighten people in the East and West again with a new quest for national unity, and finally accept the consequences of a war we instigated with all its horrors." The 800 miles of tank traps, minefields and barbed wire that still separate East from West are a constant reminder that in political terms there are, and for the foreseeable future there will be, two Germanys...