The Bad Writing Contest emerged in an intellectual climate dominated by fallout from the Sokal affair, in which the alleged opaqueness and obscurity of postmodern writing came in for criticism: Edward Said, for instance, deplored " diminishment and incoherence " in the writings of some of his colleagues and Martha Nussbaum condemned academic writing that was " ponderous and obscure.

At the 22nd party congress in February 1976, reeling from fallout caused by the publication of The Gulag Archipelago, the PCF abandoned the dictatorship of the proletariat and references to it ; it began to follow a line closer to that of the Italian Communist Party's eurocommunism.

As of February 2006, over $ 1. 2 billion were paid under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990 to U. S. citizens exposed to nuclear hazards as a result of the U. S. nuclear weapons program, and by 1998 at least $ 759 million was paid to the Marshallese Islanders in compensation for their exposure to U. S. nuclear testing, and over $ 15 million was paid to the Japanese government following the exposure of its citizens and food supply to nuclear fallout from the 1954 " Bravo " test.

As of December 2008, the fallout of the global financial crisis has not yet been hard.

On 20 October 2008, Defence Minister Willie O ' Dea was invited onto the show to discuss the fallout of the government budget.

After a fallout with the Queens Republican leadership, Ognibene ran as a City Council candidate in a special election on June 3, 2008 for the seat he previously occupied where he came in third, losing to the Queens County Republican Party endorsed candidate Anthony Como and the Democratic County candidate Elizabeth Crowley.

Reruns of Dog the Bounty Hunter, along with never-before-seen episodes from season 4, began airing on June 25, 2008, and the show continued, along with special episodes about the arrest and fallout from the Luster situation.

Americium was detected in the fallout from the Ivy Mike nuclear test.

Despite the fact that the Cubs had won 89 games, this fallout was decidedly unlovable, as the Cubs traded superstar Sammy Sosa after he had left the season's final game early and then lied about it publicly.

Einsteinium was first observed in the fallout from the Ivy Mike nuclear test.

Einsteinium was first identified in December 1952 by Albert Ghiorso and co-workers at the University of California, Berkeley in collaboration with the Argonne and Los Alamos National Laboratories, in the fallout from the Ivy Mike nuclear test.

In 1954, the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon was exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, in 1969, an ecologically catastrophic oil spill from an offshore well in California's Santa Barbara Channel, Barry Commoner's protest against nuclear testing, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, Paul R. Ehrlich's The Population Bomb all added anxiety about the environment.

Fermium was first observed in the fallout from the Ivy Mike nuclear test.

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In May 1985, the vessel was instrumental for ' Operation Exodus ', the evacuation of about 300 Rongelap Atoll islanders whose home had been contaminated with nuclear fallout from a US nuclear test two decades ago which had never been cleaned up and was still having severe health effects on the locals.

Public concern with the goth subculture reached a high point in the fallout of the Columbine High School massacre that was carried out by two students, incorrectly associated with the goth subculture.

Because Little Boy was an air burst above the ground, there was no bomb crater and no local radioactive fallout.

Project 4. 1 was a medical study conducted by the United States of those residents of the Bikini Atoll exposed to radioactive fallout.

The Chernobyl disaster had significant impact on public opinion at the end of the 1980s, and the fallout was still causing cancer deaths well into the 1990s and possibly even into the 21st century.

The resulting political fallout was severely damaging to the George W. Bush administration because of its perceived failure to act promptly and effectively.

When the United States Treasury bailed out large financial firms, to ostensibly halt a downward spiral in the nation's economy, there was tremendous negative political fallout, particularly when reports came out that monies supposed to be used to ease credit restrictions were being used to pay bonuses to highly-paid employees.

The fallout of the war was that Britain lost all of its continental naval bases between the Maritimes and Spanish Florida, ultimately the West Indies.

The project was moderately successful, but was very expensive and was superseded by a network of seismic detectors and air sampling for fallout which were cheaper, more reliable, and easier to deploy and operate.

At first, there was little fallout from this.

In 1954, the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon 5 was exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll.

There was also the economic fallout on West Germany of the 1973 oil crisis, which almost seems to have been enough stress to finish off Brandt as the Chancellor.

Then they were faced briefly with an image of a desperate family in a fallout shelter, which vanished and was replaced by a series of images reflecting the sweep of history, starting with the Acropolis and ending with an image of Marilyn Monroe ( but, again, including a mushroom cloud ).

A " Black Warning ," also for manual sirens, was either a Morse code ' D ' (— · ·) or three quick tones, indicating imminent danger of fallout.

The negative fallout stymied new investment into Barbados ' offshore sector Barbados for near two years as Barbados authorities acted swiftly successfully proving that Barbados ' economy was regulated sufficiently to ward off financial criminal activity and that it was not a " tax haven " as charged, but instead a low-tax regime.

-- Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has asked Congress for authority and funds to build fallout shelters costing about 200 million dollars.

Sir -- I read of a man who felt he should not build a fallout shelter in his home because it would be selfish for him to sit secure while his neighbors had no shelters.

Then, to conclude on an indeterminate note: `` Nevertheless, if fallout increased substantially, or remained high for a long time, it would become far more important as a potential health hazard in this country and throughout the world ''.

The prevailing official attitude then seemed to be that fallout, if not exactly good for you, might not be much worse than a bad cold.

Radiation instruments suitable for home use are available, and would be of value in locating that portion of the home which offers the best protection against fallout radiation.

The Federal Government is aiding local governments in several places to survey residential, commercial and industrial buildings to determine what fallout protection they would provide, and for how many people.

During the Cold War, many countries built fallout shelters for high-ranking government officials and crucial military facilities.

In November 1961 in Fortune magazine, an article by Gilbert Burck appeared that outlined the plans of Nelson Rockefeller, Edward Teller, Herman Kahn, and Chet Holifield for an enormous network of concrete lined underground fallout shelters throughout the United States sufficient to shelter millions of people to serve as a refuge in case of nuclear war.

American fallout shelters in the early 1960s were sometimes funded in conjunction with funding for other federal programs, such as urban renewal projects of the Federal Housing Authority, examples being Barrington Plaza, and other development projects of Los Angeles County Civil Defense and Disaster Commissioner, Louis Lesser, and were designed for large numbers of citizens.

Menelik retired in good order to his capital, Addis Ababa, and waited for the fallout of the victory to hit Italy.

* 1957 – Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.

Radioactive fallout became less of an issue and the nuclear disarmament movement went into decline for some years.

This would transmute the tantalum into the radioactive isotope < sup > 182 </ sup > Ta, which has a half-life of 114. 4 days and produces gamma rays with approximately 1. 12 million electron-volts ( MeV ) of energy apiece, which would significantly increase the radioactivity of the nuclear fallout from the explosion for several months.

While the family is preparing for the wedding of their eldest daughter, Denise, they are forced to prepare for the impending attack by converting their basement into a makeshift fallout shelter.

* November 7 – Cold War: In the United States, the Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.

After World War II, two further warnings were introduced for nuclear attack – a " Grey Warning " indicated approaching nuclear fallout with a 2½ minute warning of short steady tones divided by equal periods of silence, the silence being created with a manual shutter or electric solenoid.

Strontium-90, part of the fallout from atomic bombs, is chemically similar enough to calcium that it is utilized in osteogenesis, where its radiation can cause damage for a long time.

Hull had already had a magnificent career with the St. Louis Blues, with three consecutive 70 goal seasons and a Hart Trophy, but a fallout with management led Hull to leave the Blues for Free Agency.

The fallout led to a prison term for Hodgetts, and left a stigma attached to Bradman's name in the city's business community for many years.