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Three Ways to Encourage Internal Whistle-blowing: Remember the movie Silkwood? In the 1983 drama, Meryl Streep portrayed the real-life Karen Silkwood, who suffered radiation poisoning thanks to lax safety standards at the plant where she worked and was preparing to take her story to The New York Times when she died in a car crash under...; Tags: Financial, Training, Silkwood, Harassment, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Finance, Stacy Blackman; Blog posts 2009-06-22

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Silkwood: end of the fantasy road - Karen Silkwood: AT THE END of the new movie Silkwood, Karen Silkwood, played by Meryl Streep, dies in an automobile crash while en route to a meeting with a New York Times reporter; she is bearing documents revealing serious transgressions by the Kerr-McGee Corporation, a real-life company engaged in processing plutonium for...; Tags: movie, New York Times Co.; Research articles 1984-01-27
The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case, 2nd edition.(Review) (book review): by Richard RASHKE, Ithaca: ILR Press, Cornell University Press, 2000, 448 pp., ISBN 0-8014-8667-X. Karen Silkwood was killed on November 13, 1974, at 28 years of age while driving to meet a reporter from the New York Times with documentation about plutonium fuel rod...; Tags: activist, FBI, OH&S, worker, workplace; Research articles 2001-01-01
The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case, 2nd edition: by Richard RASHKE, Ithaca: ILR Press, Cornell University Press, 2000, 448 pp., ISBN 0-8014-8667-X. Karen Silkwood was killed on November 13, 1974, at 28 years of age while driving to meet a reporter from the New York Times with documentation about plutonium fuel rod tampering at the Kerr-McGee uranium...; Tags: activist, FBI, OH&S, worker, workplace; Research articles 2001-01-01
A comeback for nukes? Efficient, cheap and non-polluting.(Enterprise): Byline: CHRISTINA LE BEAU Say the words "nuclear power,'' and many of us think of radioactivity, the movie "Silkwood'' and the notorious accident at Three Mile Island. But the last few years have ushered in a dramatic turnaround for the Byline: CHRISTINA...; Tags: nuclear energy, Nuclear Energy Institute; Research articles 2004-09-27

Directors Guild of America to honor Mike Nichols: LOS ANGELES AFP ? The Directors Guild of America announced it will bestow its highest honor on Mike Nichols next month. Nichols, whose work has included an array of social satires, will be presented the guild's Lifetime Achievement Award at the 56th annual DGA Awards on February 7. ...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, America, director; Research articles 2004-01-05
The tie that binds. (history and art; motion picture "JFK"): The following is adapted from a speech delivered at The Nation Institute's recent forum, "Hollywood and History: The Debate Over JFK." I am not here to talk about JFK per se, but about what it is like to have written a movie based on...; Tags: movie, New York Times Co.; Research articles 1992-04-06
Four US soldiers plead not guilty in Philippines rape charges: MANILA AFP — Four US Marines pleaded not guilty in a Philippine court Friday on charges of raping a 22-year-old Filipina woman, officials said. The judge in the case automatically recorded "not guilty" pleas after Daniel Smith, Dominic Duplantis, Keith Silkwood and Chad Carpentier refused to enter a plea,...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government, SOFTWARE; Research articles 2006-04-28
Big chill for U.S. deterrent measures.(Commentary): News Item: "A senior Energy Department official and his wife, one of the lead attorneys involved in the Karen Silkwood case, were arrested this week on charges of growing and possessing marijuana." The Washington Post, Sept. 4, 1999. The revelation that...; Tags: The Post Co.; Research articles 1999-09-08