Word: unites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dead of the night, the hulks of four 372-ft. cooling towers and two high-domed nuclear reactor container buildings were scarcely discernible above the gentle waters of the Susquehanna River. Inside the brightly lit control room of Metropolitan Edison's Unit 2, technicians on the lobster shift one night last week faced a tranquil, even boring watch. Suddenly, at 4 a.m., alarm lights blinked red on their instrument panels. A siren whooped a warning. In the understated jargon of the nuclear power industry, an "event" had occurred. In plain English, it was the beginning of the worst accident...
...universally acknowledged as a policy failure of mammoth proportions. But in a nation of neglected, rat-infested and crime-ridden housing projects, New Orleans has always rated special notoriety. Its government-subsidized apartments were consistently rated among the country's worst. One of its biggest projects, an 1,800-unit catastrophe called Desire, was long reputed to be the very worst. The Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO), a political hornet's nest of patronage and chronic mismanagement, was so inept at making repairs that tenants routinely waited years for simple services. Hundreds of tenements were literally falling down...
...unit project called C.J. Peete, residents have been recruited to do maintenance and help with security and job placement. "It used to be nobody paid attention to what we were saying," says Augusta Kerry, head of C.J. Peete's resident council. "Now they listen, and we do things together...
...benefit to E911 is that whether or not a caller is able to speak on the phone to report the concern, the police can respond with a unit to the home in question...
...name or symbol of one of Harvard's schools or units--such as "Harvard Business School" or "HarvardInstitute for International Development"--requiresonly the approval of the "responsible authority"of the school or unit...