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William Scranton

"But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?"

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"What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that."
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