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...alongside the Ohio River bustled with 8,000 workers. Now the cranes and earth movers at the plant stand idle, and a shroud of snow covers the project's jagged skeleton. Last week Public Service Co. of Indiana, Marble Hill's principal builder, announced that it would abandon the half-finished plant altogether. Marble Hill has already eaten up some $2.5 billion, making it the most expensive nuclear power project ever to be dropped. The decision brings the total number of cancellations of U.S. nuclear plants since...
Proulx had to abandon his post for a sixth skater with a minute remaining, but the Crimson had little trouble clearing Taglianetti made a sparkling save on Dave Connors's first--empty-net attempt, but the Harvard winger put the game away with 13 seconds left. At Providence. R. I. Harvard 0 1 1-2 Providence...
Like Elway in Denver, Plunkett was thrown instantly into the fire with the New England Patriots, but it was slow burning. "I'd have gone crazy if I didn't play right off," he says, "and it went well the first year. I quarterbacked with reckless abandon, ran a lot, scrambled around, threw on the run. But we just didn't get any better as a club. The second year was miserable. I had never been on a losing team in my life, or experienced such negativism all around me." In the dreary seasons following, Plunkett suffered...
History repeats itself because the response to conflict is predictable. Governments usually try to solve disagreements with force or intimidation. If world leaders would abandon the military alternative, history would be made, not repeated...
...Greek Cypriots, for their part, run a robust enough economy. But they are frustrated politically and demand not only the withdrawal of the 20,000 Turkish "occupation" troops but also the return of Greek Cypriots to areas they were forced to abandon after 1974. They agree in principle to a federated state but are vague about the kind of equality Denktash demands for his outnumbered minority. Turkish Cypriot leaders insisted last week that the federation option remains open despite the proclamation of the republic; indeed, they explained, the creation of a Turkish Cypriot state would provide the weight necessary...