Word: technician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Karen Silkwood was a $4-an-hour technician at Kerr-McGee Corp.'s Cimarron River plutonium plant about 30 miles north of Oklahoma City. The facility makes plutonium pellet fuel rods for the breeder reactor, a second-generation nuclear power plant now being developed. Silkwood was one of the most active members of local 5-283 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. She was deeply concerned about how plutonium was handled. And with good reason. Inhalation or swallowing of a few specks of the radioactive element can result in cancer. Exposure to slightly greater quantities can cause...
Many of Laragh's colleagues and co-workers at Columbia Presbyterian plan to follow him in the 100-block move to The New York Hospital because they like what one calls "the atmosphere of scientific ferment" that surrounds their leader. One female lab technician has another reason for tagging along with Laragh. "It's those Irish eyes," she says. Laragh's reason for taking his new post: "It's a chance to do more...
...happens, the mildly optimistic conventional forecast is getting some support from an unconventional quarter: the ever inventive and unorthodox breed of Wall Street analysts known collectively as "technicians." Uninterested in such mundane matters as interest rates, profits and price/earnings ratios, the technicians try to divine the future by studying patterns that have seemed to shape trading in the past. The technician, says one of the leading practitioners of the art, Edson Gould of Anametrics, Inc., approaches each new year like "a lion tamer who must anticipate the moves the animal will make." The 1975 moves, as forecast by some...
...forgiven almost anything. He always furnishes plenty that needs forgiving, but his best scenes are madder, funnier, more inspired than anything being done in movies today, including the rather coddled comedy of Woody Allen. Brooks must also have got tired of people telling him what a maladroit technician he has been, and he has taken some pains to correct that failing here. Young Frankenstein is his best-crafted film so far. It contains uniformly excellent performances, among which Madeline Kahn's delicate but libidinous fiancee ranks high...
...membership." He lives in a simple bachelor apartment in the capital, returning on weekends to the Cabin Creek hamlet of Ohley. His wife Virginia remains there in a tiny, plain frame house on an old road near the creek. The Millers have two children, Larry, 22, an electronics technician, and Vicki, 20, a student. Some day Miller intends to move U.M.W. headquarters into coal country so members can drop...