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Mindful of Kyoto, the government has lately shifted the focus to cutting greenhouse gases. That gave birth to the Cool Biz policy in 2005, under which offices save energy by keeping summer temperatures at a stifling 82.4°F (28??C). To beat the heat, salarymen are told to doff their black suits in favor of light colors and open collars. The result made the Prime Minister occasionally look as if he were addressing parliament from a beach in Waikiki, but at least Cool Biz had more style than a similar Japanese idea from the 1970s: the short-sleeved business...
Every degree will be a battle. Even under the best of circumstances, Operation Teakettle will take at least five days to lower the core temperature the final 28?? C. But the NRC team is determined not to hurry the process with pumps or other heavy-duty machinery. All in all, the technicians at Three Mile Island are cautiously optimistic. But even after cooldown, their job will not be done. They must still purge the stricken and perhaps permanently wrecked plant of its overburden of frighteningly dangerous radioactivity, a process that could easily go on for months. Then they must figure...
...constitutional deviation, a royal dictatorship," Papandreou predicted. "We have only one answer: a people's revolution." To this the King replied: "If Papandreou starts a revolution, I will start the counter-revolution." Unable to get enough votes to form a government, Kanellopoulos dissolved Parliament, set the elections for May 28???and thus, wittingly or unwittingly, cleared the stage for last week's coup...
...shares; 1939's biggest day, 2,888,000 shares) changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange. War babies (steel, metals, aircrafts) led the advance. Bethlehem Steel, Santa Claus to many a World War I investor, zoomed 7: points (to 65), Anaconda Copper was up 4? (to 28???). Aircraft stocks all took off, registered gains of 7.5% to 18.1%. The Dow-Jones industrial average hit 135.25 (still 19.65 below the 1939 high of last January...
...28???Subscriptions to the system from eligible members total $9,259,081, with paid-in cash considerably less. To reach the minimum capitalization the R. F. C. must put up its full...