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WASHINGTON--Two key members of Congress yesterday criticized President Carter's Three Mile Island commission for failing to recommend a moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants...
Wilcox said the committee "will try to get two exemptions for everyone," adding it will ask departments to recommend exemptions for their concentrators...
EXCEPT FOR THE RAMONES and Soles, there's little to recommend Rock and Roll High School. Most of the jokes are silly, like this one--a fellow in Indian dress walks along the ticket line for the Ramones gig: "A scalper," one fan tells another knowingly. The soundtrack is good--music by Eno and Nick Lowe side by side with Alice Cooper and Todd Rundgren. (If you want to hear live Ramones recordings, though, don't buy this soundtrack album; get a double-album import called It's Alive, four uninterrupted sides of lobotomized thumping...
...Carter Administration last week attempted to revive its moribund voluntary guidelines by creating a 15-member committee, including representatives of labor and management, that will recommend new wage standards to replace the current 7% guide. Since unions had strongly opposed the guidelines, forming the committee was a step toward reconciliation between the President and labor. Unions still have scant incentive for moderate settlements at a time when inflation is roaring at 13%. The Labor Department announced that consumer prices rose by 1.1% in August, the seventh straight month of an increase of 1% or more. Because prices rise faster than...
...need more sites," says Timothy Johnson, associate professor of political science at MIT who assisted in a White House study of the radioactive waste problem. "Existing sites are going to fill up and the demand keeps increasing," Johnson frets. An inter-agency council established by President Carter--which will recommend a Department of Energy-sponsored program--has still not issued its findings...