Word: rasmussen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five children. Rodman, 42, is the president of International Business Economy Corp., a family concern that helps local businesses get started in Latin America and other countries. Steven, 38, a religion instructor at Middlebury College in Vermont, caused a stir when he married a household maid, Anne Marie Rasmussen, in 1959. They were divorced a decade later. Ann, 40, now legally separated from her second husband, works for the Rockefeller Family Fund in Manhattan. Mary, 36, divorced from her first husband, is married to Thomas Morgan, onetime press secretary to former New York City Mayor John Lindsay and now assistant...
...another way, of the 15 million people residing in the vicinity of the 109 nuclear plants that are operating or are under construction in the U.S., one of them might die and two might be injured in a radioactive accident over the next 25 years. Concludes Norman C. Rasmussen, the professor of nuclear engineering at M.I.T. who headed the research team: "The study says to me that these plants do not present a significant risk to the public...
Even so, the AEC is hedging its bets. It has ordered a study by M.I.T. Nuclear Engineer Norman Rasmussen, of the reliability of every single component in a nuclear plant. Though the study will not be completed until mid-1974, Ray says, it so far shows that mechanically "the reactors are darned good. The weakest point may be the human factor"-that is, an error committed by technicians running an atomic power plant...
Against the Vassar team of Gerrity and Rasmussen, Stuart and Morgan had to win the second set in a tie-breaker, 7-6, after having handily won the first set, 6-3. In the semi-finals match, the 'Cliffe team took on the top-seeded duo of Havemeyer and Straus of Yale. The match lasted nearly two and a half hours, with the Cliffies scoring an upset victory...
Arnold Miller, a coal miner running for the state legislature in West Virginia, said miners were dying by the hundreds of lung disease incurred under unhealthy working conditions. Dr. Donald Rasmussen, who works at the Appalachian Regional Hospital, said that increased dust control regulations would reduce the deaths from black lung disease by 90 per cent...