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America has become inured to colossal business mergers in the last two years. Weddings like those of Occidental Petroleum and Cities Service, United States Steel and Marathon Oil, and the record-setting $7.5 billion union of Du Pont and Conoco have sometimes been shotgun affairs, sometimes harmonious ones. Throughout, the national press has doled out coverage indiscriminately in its continual search for bigness...
...Senator of skill and character. Although Durenberger has his quarrels with the Administration's economic program, Dayton is trying to make the campaign into a referendum on Reaganomics. Low grain price's and high interest rates are forcing Minnesota farmers to the wall, while the depressed steel industry has led to rising unemployment among iron-ore miners. Calling for increased federal support for wheat and dairy farmers, Dayton quips, "It's not the farmers who are living off the fat of the land. It's the fat of the land who are living off the farmers...
...Crossings, Steel...
While cutting energy demand might be a key to reducing the threat of a crisis, Americans will still drive their cars and companies will still produce such energy intensive products as steel. In sum, we still need oil and, more generally, abundant energy. The Mideast is risky, as are Mexico, Venezuela, and Nigeria in the long-term. And domestic off-shore drilling threatens not to live up to its promise. So, do we need a crash program to develop synthetic fuels? Coal is plentiful, but is it clean enough to be the electricity of the future? Are nuclear power, fusion...
...Scandinavian. The floor and table lamps (1979) of Denmark's Claus Bonderup and Torsten Thorup are dated high-tech novelty items. Norwegians Svein Gusrud and Hans Christian Mengshoel's Balans Activ chair contraption (1979), made in Norway, is equally uncharming. It consists of a kneepad connected by steel tubes to a padded seat, all of which is supposed to relieve pressure on the spine. It is, instead, a pain in the eyes...