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Sellers have discovered that the price their silver fetches as scrap from retail dealers is only a fraction of the spot, or quoted, price for the metal. This spread between scrap and spot prices has been widening because chaotic markets make dealers reluctant to tie up too much cash in expensive inventory. A year ago, when silver was quoted at around $5 an oz., dealers paid customers $3 or $4 an oz., but when silver recently nudged $50, nervous dealers in the Los Angeles area were offering only $10 to $20 an oz. for scrap and sterling flatware...
...clearly offers many indispensable creature comforts. Nor is the public currently uninterested in science. The foremost reason for the public's unrest toward science lies primarily with the scientists. With few exceptions, scientists are no longer sharing knowledge, no longer teaching well, no longer willing to grant a small fraction of their time to what might be called scientific citizenship. Like many other segments of society in the 1970s, scientists have generally adopted a selfishness bordering on elitism...
...dollars for oil, Iran needs the U.S. currency to pay for imports of everything from Australian wheat to Japanese machinery, which are all priced in dollars in international trading. Iran's oil exports, which have been declining in recent weeks, amount to about $70 million daily, only a fraction of the more than $150 billion that normally changes hands every day in international dollar transactions...
...outer space even though the payoff is doubtful at best. He calls for a ban on new nuclear power plants and would give much more of a subsidy to solar power, though almost every study shows that over the next two decades solar can supply only a small fraction of the nation's energy needs, while nuclear power remains necessary. Most economists say that his call for a constitutional amendment to force a balanced budget would gravely crimp the Government's ability to function...
...crushed the autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church and in 1946 expunged Eastern-rite Roman Catholicism in favor of the more easily controlled Russian Orthodox Church. Even so, the Ukraine by official count still has 4,000 of the 11,000 Orthodox churches now open in the U.S.S.R.-only a fraction of the 53,000 churches in Russia before 1917. Protestant Ukrainians have been active since the early 1960s in a Baptist reform movement against state control. Half the reported 10,000 Soviet Protestants demanding emigration because of religious repression live in the Ukraine...