Word: instrumentation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plant's beleaguered operator. Midway through the first critical day, the hot, uranium-filled core, normally bathed in pressurized cooling water, was left dangerously uncovered for as long as 50 minutes; controllers had shut off the emergency core cooling system, probably because of ambiguous or misleading instrument readings. It was during this period that much of the damage was done to the fuel rods, causing a release of radiation...
...according to Shils, the Government has ignored the universities' traditional function of searching for truth. It has pushed them into federal programs to train high-level experts, create defense technology and promote national economic growth. Eventually, Caesar also came to view the education provided by universities as an instrument for abolishing poverty and ending discrimination in American society...
...gentle waters of the Susquehanna River, eleven miles southeast of Harrisburg, Pa. Inside the brightly lit control room of Metropolitan Edison's Unit 2, technicians on the lobster shift one night last week faced a tranquil, even boring watch. Suddenly, at 4 a.m., alarm lights blinked red on their instrument panels. A siren whooped a warning. In the understated jargon of the nuclear power industry, an "event" had occurred. In plain English, it was the beginning of the worst accident in the history of U.S. nuclear power production, and of a long, often confused nightmare that threw the future...
...craft in selecting his programs. The Chinese love the violin, so there were two concertos, the Mozart Fifth in A Major and the Mendelssohn. Concertmaster Joseph Silverstein was the delicate, meticulous soloist in both. The Boston also used two Chinese virtuosos. Liu Dehai played a concerto for a lutelike instrument called the pipa. In the solos he all but turned into Orpheus...
...such a setting. Said he: "It's like swimming in the ocean after you have been swimming at the Y." The audience was in a jolly, responsive mood. Cellist Martin Hoherman brought down the house during an encore by playing a few phrases on the banhu, a Chinese instrument with two parallel strings, played by bowing between them. Hoherman was glad when his chore was over: "That technique is like drilling. A dentist should...