Word: processions
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Reagan has always been high on Haig, and when the Democrats promised to challenge the appointment, he figured he had no alternative but to stand and fight. Said Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, an adviser to Reagan: "We felt that we shouldn't be intimidated by the confirmation process. We should send out some positive signals to the country and to the world." Both Presidents Ford and Nixon had pressed for Haig's appointment. So had Kissinger, who said of his onetime aide: "There is only one question to be considered: Is this man morally and intellectually qualified...
...major hurdles remain in the path of atomic energy. The first is the disposal of nuclear waste. Spent fuel rods contain radioactive isotopes that remain potentially lethal for thousands of years. The industry believes that there are several ways to handle the problem. The most promising is vitrification, a process that mixes the nuclear waste with glass; the material hardens into a black solid cylinder which is easy to store...
...second, and possibly more difficult hurdle will be convincing the public that nuclear plants can be safely used and turned off in emergencies. An electrical generating plant that is powered by coal, oil or natural gas can be stopped in minutes. But the process can be much more perilous at a nuclear facility. When malfunctions occur, the nuclear reaction that produces the energy cannot be shut down instantly; even afterward, heat and radioactivity remain. Three Mile Island demonstrated that control-room personnel are not always prepared to handle an emergency. In the past year the nuclear industry and the Government...
...writing too hard" and proclaiming as certain. "People have been floating too many rumors; we don't know how accurate they are, and I don't think anyone else does." He has watched the Republican team float names just to see how much opposition they generate. The process has claimed some victims. William Simon thought himself a shoo-in to be Reagan's Secretary of the Treasury. Then, after being subjected to what he calls "an overt hatchet job," including leaks about his unpopularity with some Senate Republicans, Simon withdrew, pleading personal reasons. But he is bitter...
Take Calvin Trillin. Please. At the very least, take his book, a thoroughly diverting novel that nips at the unexposed flanks of the newsmagazine process, particularly the so-called back of the book, where a new sect or fad is no news until the magazine's editors/correspondents discover it. There is, for example, the "dirty bushes" story involving a gardener who prunes shrubs into phallic and vaginal shapes. And the quixotic "two-thirds stocking" fad, where the only stumbling block for the writer is what two-thirds means -two-thirds of the way to the knee or just...