Word: withstand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...GULF-WAR SYNDROME could have been caused by three ordinarily harmless doses of chemicals that, when combined, produce neurological damage, research on chickens suggests. The soldiers took anti-nerve gas pills that may have limited their bodies' ability to withstand certain pesticides they applied to their skin and clothes...
...green light after President Clinton signed a sweeping deregulation of the telecommunications industry into law two months ago. "In the aftermath of deregulation, these two large companies are trying to manouver in an exceptional communication and media world," says TIME's Michael Krantz. "By merging, they can more effectively withstand competition from cable, wireless, long-distance companies and anyone else who can deliver data and entertianment information more efficiently." The combined company will keep the Bell Atlantic name and be based in New York City. About 3,000 jobs will be eliminated in the merger, mostly in corporate and administrative...
During the struggle for American independence, Thomas Paine wrote: "These are the times that try men's souls." He knew that the "summer soldiers" and the "sunshine patriots" would not withstand the harsh demands of the Revolutionary War. That quest demanded a commitment to liberty so strong and a belief in freedom so persistent that brothers would take up arms not only against the mother country, but against their Tory neighbors as well...
...spelled out the problem in a memo, calling the fuel pool a license violation and an "unreviewed safety question"--NRC lingo for a major regulatory headache-and adding other concerns he had found, such as the fact that some of the pool's cooling pipes weren't designed to withstand an earthquake, as they were required to do. Northeast sat on the memo for three months, until Galatis filed an internal notice-of- violation form, and Betancourt, a leader in the spent-fuel field for years, wrote a memo backing...
...APRIL 1994, TWO YEARS AFTER HE DIScovered the problems with Millstone's cooling system, Galatis reported the matter to the NRC. He spoke to a "senior allegations coordinator," waited months, then refiled his charges in a letter describing 16 problems, including the cooling system, the pipes that couldn't withstand seismic shock, the corporate culture. "At Northeast, people are the biggest safety problem," Galatis says. "Not the guys in the engine room. The guys who drive the boat...