Sentences with phrase «western safety officials»

But usually restrained Western safety officials warned that Bulgaria is risking an accident on a par with the Chernobyl disaster.

Not exact matches

Amid chants of «health and safety first,» a rally yesterday on the Capitol's Western Staircase attracted roughly 150 advocates and elected officials seeking a state - sponsored study on the potential health impacts of natural gas pipelines.

BULGARIA's decision to restart its oldest nuclear reactor provoked alarm among Western nuclear safety officials last week, and triggered an international crisis.

As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).