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...prices may be headed down, but the heat on natural gas keeps rising. Some tempers were getting close to the boiling point last week over President Rea gan's industry gas decontrol package, a complex effort to reshape an industry distorted by layers of regulation. Said Robert Hefner, president of GHK Co., an independent Oklahoma City gas producer: "We're getting double-crossed, and we're going to fight like hell...
...George, welcome to the team," said President Ronald Reagan at a swearing-in ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House last Friday afternoon. Rea gan complimented the Senate on "its wisdom," described Shultz as "a man with character and common sense," and observed: "Today I am reminded of the old saying, 'Let George do it.' And George, from now on, I think I'll have a few things...
...increased numbers. Refugees from Viet Nam and Cuba have helped create sizable pockets of the disease in California (1,038 reported cases), Hawaii (759), Texas (509), New York (401) and Florida (115). Though health authorities routinely screen immigrants and refugees, leprosy often escapes notice. Explains Dr. Thomas Rea, who treats 320 leprosy patients in Los Angeles: "It can take up to 20 years after infection before symptoms appear...
...Tennessee Valley Authority were delivering 3.19 billion kilowatt hours of electricity at about half the average national rate and the TVA was playing a major part in the economic revival of the South. The spread of low-cost electricity was also the mission of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), which loaned money at low interest (3%) to cooperative power systems. In seven years, the REA helped increase the number of farms supplied with electricity from 750,000 to 2.125 million (11% to 35% of the total...
When the White House speechwriters crafted Ronald Rea gan's Christmas message, they tried desperately to get away from Charles Dickens' hoary label for any era: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." But they failed, drawn again to that time-worn language to describe the maddening contradictions of the world today. And indeed, Dickens' words may be especially apt for 1982, a year with no poetry in its sound, no numerical magic. It is a year that a number of scholars and statesmen are already predicting will be momentous...