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...hostility have brought the construction of nuclear power plants to a near standstill. But the need for other sources of power has been underlined by the coal strike, during which atomic power plants have supplied 14% of the nation's electrical requirements (an increase of more than one-tenth from 1977). That production has allowed the nation to escape severe power rationing. Seizing the opportunity, the Carter Administration made three moves last week to advance the nuclear cause, at least in the long...
...inflationary rise is caused by price-boosting forces almost everywhere in the U.S. economy. As Daniel Brill, the Treasury's chief economist, told TIME Washington Correspondent George Taber. "A lot of little things are breaking wrong. It's a tenth of a point here and a tenth of a point there." The problems...
...coal wage-and-benefit increase] over three years." In addition companies will also bid up the price of nonunion coal, switch to higher-priced fuels or make up for lost work by scheduling costly overtime when the strike ends. Those moves could boost inflation by as much as one-tenth...
Penn did defeat Harvard last season, breaking the Crimson's 24-race, four-year victory streak by one-tenth of a second in the Adams Cup race here in May. However, Harvard avenged the loss at the Eastern Sprints in Princeton only one week later, stroking to victory by one length in the varsity finals...
...second of a series of lectures on "Government: Its Uses and Abuses," Connally, the 1978 Pollack Lecturer, spoke before about 40 people--less than one-tenth of the attendance at his first lecture...