Word: waterford
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK CITY Times Square The ball is now Waterford crystal, and a parade will feature 150 giant puppets --Free --More than 1 million expected...
BIGGEST NEW YEAR'S EVE BLOWOUT 999: Thousands pack St. Peter's Basilica in Rome to witness the end of the world 1999: Thousands pack Times Square in New York City to witness the dropping of the new Waterford crystal ball...
...televised death of Youk, a vintage-car restorer from Waterford Township, Mich., set off a round of finger pointing over the motives behind the performance. Oakland County prosecutor David Gorcyca, who filed the murder charges last Wednesday, accused Kevorkian of airing the video to satisfy his "attention-starved ego." CBS, meanwhile, faced accusations of exploiting the death for ratings. The segment did help boost the show's numbers--the household rating was up 20% over the season average--during the critical fall sweeps period, which sets local advertising rates. Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes' executive producer, insisted his show wasn...
...designer at Northeast Utilities' Millstone 3 plant in Waterford, Connecticut, which is currently shut down and on the NRC's watch list, I can tell you firsthand that Pooley's suggestion that a clandestine atmosphere and oppressive management tactics were prevalent at Millstone is simply not true. His article sounded more like the review of a sequel to the movie China Syndrome than an accurate report on the progress of the NRC and Northeast Utilities. BRIAN BOHMBACH Niantic, Connecticut...
TIME's special report focused national attention on the NRC's failure to enforce its safety rules at Northeast's Millstone Station in Waterford, Connecticut. Then something extraordinary happened. Where past agency chiefs had routinely ignored such criticism, NRC chairman Shirley Ann Jackson, who had taken the job just 10 months before this scandal broke, called the TIME story "a wake-up call" and "a learning moment." Revving up its inspection program at Millstone, her agency found such pervasive noncompliance that it ordered all three plants there to shut down for sweeping repairs. A year later, Northeast is facing...