All Systems Are Go For SRP To Land NPR
South Carolina leaders push to bring the New Production Reactor to Savannah River Plant. Support from Gov Carroll Campbell, Congress members Butler Derrick Doug Barnard and Sen Strom Thurmond, Du Pont, plus favorable but cautious environmental groups, outline a path to possible NPR approval with public input and a $10 billion project scope. Citizens urged to write to Secretary Herrington.
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South Carolina
Savannah River
SRP
Carroll Campbell
Chambers of Commerce
Energy
John S. Herrington
South Carolina House
Washington
Butler Derrick
Derrick
House
U. S
Doug Barnard Jr
D-Ga
Barnard
Augusta
Strom Thurmond
NPR
Senate
The
du Pont Co
du Pont
Edgar S. Woolard Jr
Aiken
Natural Resources Defense Council
Energy Research Foundation
Foundation
Frances Close Hart
Herrington
DOE
Washington State
Idaho
Thought For Today on prognostication by Peter Boyer
An aphoristic quote notes that experts claim risk when predicting outcomes and often prove incorrect yet maintain a high survival rate despite prognostic missteps. The reflection frames confidence versus accuracy in forecasts attributed to an Associated Press writer.
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Peter Boyer
Associated Press
Beck case pulls at liberty in agency fees ruling
The Beck case challenges union agency fees paid by non members under the National Labor Relations Act. The Justice Department joined the union, arguing fees may fund only bargaining and related tasks, not political uses, prompting calls that Meese should have killed the brief.
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Washington
Honolulu
Justice Department
Beck
Ed Meese
National Labor Relations Act
Harry Beck
Maryland
Communications Workers of America
U.S. District Court
James R. Miller Jr
4Th Circuit
National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation
U.S. Solicitor General
Meese
Department
Bester William Steele
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Supreme Court
TV in the Senate Puts Country to Sleep Says Proxmire
The article recalls Senator William Proxmire railing against televised Senate proceedings calling the experiment asleep. It contrasts historic, energetic legislators with a modern, sluggish body and notes high campaign costs. It ends with a mention of Gary Hart as a sharper contrast to today’s Senators.
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High Court
Congress
Senate TV
U.S. Senate
William Proxmire
Wisconsin
Senate
Treasury
Jefferson
John C. Calhoun
Clay, Webster
Stephen Douglas
William Seward
Charles Summer
Summer
Proxmire
Gary Hart
Are America's Academic Minds Closing Again
Los Angeles Times Syndicate notes a campus clash over Edward Teller at Adelphi University and broader fears that liberal faculties suppress ideas. The piece argues student independence matters while recommending Teller essays and Allan Bloom on higher education's moral shift.
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America
New York City
the Turtledove
Peter Diamondopolis
Adelphi University
Adelphi
Edward Teller
Teller
Garden City
Long Island
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Harvard
Reagan
Strategic Defense Initiative
Macmillan
Leo Szilard
Soviet Union
Allan Bloom
Simon and Schuster
Bloom
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