But this bit of gratuitous groveling pales next to the sins of others--both those who remained Stalinists into the 1950s and those who did not just acquiesce in, but advocated, McCarthyism.
This pales in comparison to Stalinists and McCarthyists.
However, ideally, longer than 35 months would allow for all of the retrofits to occur over a period of several years so that facility owners can properly plan outages and suppliers can properly plan for resource availability.