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...plugged into a larger regional pool of power producers. Depending on the electricity needs of its 9 million customers in New York City and neighboring Westchester County, Con Ed can either 1) rely largely on its own generators, or 2) buy power from neighboring utilities if the load-or demand from its users-is high, or 3) sell off surplus electricity to other companies. Yet those choices are complicated by another fact: electrical energy cannot economically be stored. Even a relatively small variation in load in one part of the system must be quickly compensated for elsewhere along the line...
...platform. The newsmagazine L 'Express quoted from a confidential 1970 report by the tower's chief engineer, who had warned of the lift's "serious fatigue." A cylinder might burst, he contended, causing the cage to make "a rapid and uncontrollable descent" with its 80-passenger load. The elevator has not yet been fully repaired...
...alternative, Carter ordered the Air Force to load its newest weapon, the comparatively cheap (less than $1 million each) and deadly accurate cruise missile, aboard modified B-52s. He left open the possibility of putting cruise missiles aboard modified C-5A Galaxy transports and military versions of the Boeing 747. Pentagon planners estimate that Carter's plan could cost, overall, at least 20% less than building the B-1 and that it will give the U.S. just as good a capability of penetrating Soviet air defenses...
Nevertheless, the Harvard Government Department voted--with one abstention--in January to offer Kissinger a tenured position. He refused, however, apparently because the post would demand a full-time teaching load--and office hours...
...favorite nose counter could hardly have been more correct. Last week the simmering dispute between the President and Capitol Hill broke into the open, with congressional members of Carter's own party leading the battle. Within three days Democrat-led committees in both chambers voted to load Administration proposals with more than $3.5 billion in extra money...