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Samuels's petition asks reconsideration of the plant because shortages of oil have made a generating facility designed only to handle peak power loads economically unviable...
...issues costly, they also depress the stock market by luring money away into such high-yielding investments as bank certificates of deposit. The Dow Jones industrial average last week fell below 800 for the first time in five months and closed at 802.17, down 24% from its January 1973 peak...
...Kennedy Library Corporation also announced arrangements with the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and Harvard University to secure 800 additional spaces to supplement the on-site parking during peak periods...
Harvey Joyner, a traffic consultant to the Kennedy Corporation, estimated that the museum will draw 800,000 tourists to Cambridge annually. He said that the 1000 available parking spaces would be sufficient to accommodate peak daily turnouts of 7000 to 8000 visitors...
...would toss his bat to the ground or slam his batting helmet onto the dugout bench. His morale was not helped by a bitter feud that quickly developed with Finley. This dispute, which began over salary and spread in 1970 to Jackson's quality of play, reached a peak late that summer. While crossing the plate after hitting a grand-slam home run, he saluted Finley with an obscene gesture. Finley demanded, and got, a written apology; but the incident plunged Jackson into a foul mood-to say nothing of a slump that ended the team's chances...