Word: johnstons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...addition to Armstrong, the search committee consists of Robert G. Stone Jr., D. Ronald Daniel, both Fellows of the College, and David Johnston, a member of the Board of Overseers...
Seven years after ground was broken in 1985 to build a prototype incinerator on Johnston Atoll, 750 miles from Hawaii, Congress put the program on hold because of cost and safety concerns. It resumed the incineration program 18 months later, when the independent National Research Council concluded that to pause and explore alternative disposal methods was too risky because the weapons--rockets, artillery shells, bombs and land mines--are deteriorating. There have been some 2,100 reported incidents of leakage inside the igloos. Last summer at the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama, 60 workers were evacuated and one was hospitalized...
...weeks ago, the Pentagon released the first detailed information about the size, type and location of the weapons caches in eight states and on Johnston Atoll. Major General Robert Orton, who heads the Army's chemical-weapons-destruction project, predicted, "This will help minimize misunderstandings, expedite the environmental permitting processes and save money." But the history of the one operating incinerator is not reassuring. Though the Johnston facility has destroyed 3% of the nation's stockpile since coming on line in 1990, the effort has been plagued by mishaps. Conveyor belts, chutes and gates have jammed; a rocket exploded inside...
...Tooele, Utah, home of the nation's largest chemical stockpile, the facility was built by EG&G Defense Materials Inc., under contract to the Army. But Utah residents are wary of the military after the atomic-testing scandal of the 1950s. "The firebricks blew up in the kiln at Johnston," says Steve Jones, a safety inspector who was fired by EG&G in 1994, after just three months on the job. "Then they built the kiln in Tooele using the same bricks." The Army contends that Jones was fired for mismanagement; Jones says he was sacked after refusing to sign...
...those folks don't vote, so what? "Energizing people is hard," says state senator George Lovejoy, a Dole supporter."It's more exciting to be with an insurgent like Forbes." There's also "a sense that Dole is carrying too much Washington baggage to change things," says Joe Johnston, Dole's co-chair in Hancock. "And people can't see how reducing the deficit is good for them. He's coming across as just a head chopper...