Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...riveting days, the nation-and the world-watched a gas bubble build up in a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pa., and threaten to cause a hydrogen gas explosion that would spew radiation into the atmosphere. When the bubble finally disappeared and the danger subsided, deep relief was mingled with grave concern about the nuclear future...
...nuclear power's role cannot be eliminated without dire consequences. In some areas-New England, around Chicago, parts of the Southeast-atomic plants supply about half of all electricity. Shutting them would lead to blackouts and brownouts that would gravely threaten public health and safety. Electricity bills would soar, cruelly pinching low-income homeowners, as utilities were compelled to turn to higher-cost sources of energy. Some power companies would be forced to buy still more foreign oil at prices of up to $20 a barrel, fanning inflation, weakening the dollar and tying the U.S. energy future yet more...
...though disagreement about what to do avers the investor's responsibility to do something. The essence of ethical behavior lies in making choices among difficult courses of action. Bok might counter that since there is disagreement within the academic community, choosing one course of action over another might threaten academic freedom. In the first place, his underlying assumption--that even if the seven men of the Corporation make that decision for the community, we will somehow avoid the difficulty--is contradictory on its face. And second, the issues of investor responsibility and academic freedom are separate: making responsible choices...
...nation's commitment to nuclear power. But as President Carter so aptly commented this week, "I think it does not contribute to safety to have a bureaucratic nightmare or maze of red tape." The studies, presidential commissions and congressional hearings inspired by the Three Mile Island incident threaten to degenerate into pro forma inspections of surface material. If no salient conclusions are drawn and no gutsy probing of the flabby and overweight NRC takes place. Three Mile Island will fade as one of the many nuclear mishaps shoved into obscurity behind the powerful dollars of the nation's energy industry...
...Gaddafi argued that the new Egyptian arms are likely to be used not against Israel but against Libya. In July 1977, Egypt launched sharp raids against Libya in a border dispute.] If the Americans seek to change the balance [of power in the region] in a way that is threatening to Libya, we will be forced to seek Soviet assistance to counter that threat. When reactionary regimes threaten us, we will resist...