Word: waking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wake of Three Mile Island, the battered nuclear power industry suffered another blow last week, this one in a court of law. A federal jury in Oklahoma City handed down a finding in the celebrated case of Karen Silkwood that vastly increased the chances that a company using nuclear materials might have to pay heavy damages for harming not only its employees, but people in surrounding areas...
Spradley's Houston colleagues rallied to his side and a defense fund was set up. Mayor Jim McConn joined the campaign, hoping to recoup some prestige in the wake of a scandal involving a gambling debt and the indictment of a top fund raiser and aide for extorting kickbacks. In full uniform, Everitt flew to the rescue with Fire Chief V.E. Rogers...
With varying degrees of apathy, Washington has witnessed demonstrations by coal miners, farmers, chiropractors and bird watchers, by mimes protesting the imprisonment of six mimes in Spain, Tibetan-Americans complaining about their passports, and Strippers for Christ. But last week, in the wake of one of the largest marches since the Viet Nam era, in which more than 70,000 people assembled to protest the proliferation of nuclear-power plants, the capital began wondering whether an important movement may be in the process of being born...
Carrying that formidable history in its wake, Harvard entered the 1979 race with an uneasy feeling. The lights had been beaten soundly by Yale the weekend before--all except the J.V. boat, which carried a 4-0 record to Worcester...
...wake of our Vietnam experience it can certainly be argued that these commitments are not appropriate. Perhaps we should not defend these countries or retain any military capability to intervene outside the industrial West. This is a major change, however, with profound implications for our Allies, for our energy policy and for our self image. It is in this light--as a change in our foreign policy--that the recommendations of BSG should be regarded...