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...some point, though, the industry has to grow up. And if it does not within a reasonable amount of time, the project is deemed a failure. Similarly, Israel cannot rely on its identify as an infant forever. The question remains; when should one abandon such excuses...
...Byron and Marble Hill decisions seemed to spark a chain reaction of anxiety about the costs of nuclear power. Cincinnati's city council called on Cincinnati Gas & Electric to abandon plans to complete the Zimmer nuclear plant, which has been plagued by mismanagement and safety lapses. Zimmer, budgeted at $240 million when it was proposed in 1969, has already cost some $1.4 billion and is not expected to be completed until 1986, eleven years behind schedule. Taking this into account, CG&E and the other two power companies building Zimmer announced at week's end that they will...
...Michigan, Attorney General Frank Kelley publicly urged the state's largest utility, Consumers Power, to follow Indiana's example and abandon construction of the Midland atomic power plant. Proposed in 1967 at an expected cost of $260 million, Midland will probably reach $6 billion, says Kelley. Midland came under additional criticism last week from federal inspectors, who announced that the floors in one of Midland's buildings were filled with cracks. Those fissures seemed symbolic of the whole nuclear power industry...
...that idealized world to come is undergoing heated revision as more and more people use their homes as places for computerized work. In experimental projects across the U.S., several hundred clerical and professional workers have agreed to abandon the office and work at home on computer terminals electronically linked to their firms' office computers. In management jargon they are "telecommuting" and work at "flexiplaces...
...provincial tour. The plot of Nothing On involves a ditzy maid in an English country house, a wayward plate of sardines, an illicit couple, a licit couple dodging the taxman, a sheik and a bibulous burglar. Doors slam (the set contains seven of them) and trousers drop with dizzying abandon...