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During the struggle for American independence, Thomas Paine wrote: "These are the times that try men's souls." He knew that the "summer soldiers" and the "sunshine patriots" would not withstand the harsh demands of the Revolutionary War. That quest demanded a commitment to liberty so strong and a belief in freedom so persistent that brothers would take up arms not only against the mother country, but against their Tory neighbors as well...
...spelled out the problem in a memo, calling the fuel pool a license violation and an "unreviewed safety question"--NRC lingo for a major regulatory headache-and adding other concerns he had found, such as the fact that some of the pool's cooling pipes weren't designed to withstand an earthquake, as they were required to do. Northeast sat on the memo for three months, until Galatis filed an internal notice-of- violation form, and Betancourt, a leader in the spent-fuel field for years, wrote a memo backing...
...APRIL 1994, TWO YEARS AFTER HE DIScovered the problems with Millstone's cooling system, Galatis reported the matter to the NRC. He spoke to a "senior allegations coordinator," waited months, then refiled his charges in a letter describing 16 problems, including the cooling system, the pipes that couldn't withstand seismic shock, the corporate culture. "At Northeast, people are the biggest safety problem," Galatis says. "Not the guys in the engine room. The guys who drive the boat...
Murphy was able to withstand a barrage of shots from Harvard at the end of the game and made 15 saves in the final period. Clarkson's 6-4 victory at Brown the next night extended the Golden Knights' ECAC winning streak to eight games, their longest such streak since...
...Nigeria can withstand these diplomatic censures as long as its financial support remains intact. Most of that support comes from foreign investment, particularly from oil companies that export primarily to the United States. Shareholders in those companies now have a moral obligation to divest. American investors should let the world know that their money does not go to tyrants and murderers...