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...SPITE OF ALL WE'RE DOING TO KEEP FOOD PRICES DOWN, CERTAIN PRICE INCREASES YOU SEE IN FOOD STORES ARE INEVITABLE. IT'S SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR FOOD STORES TO ABSORB REPEATED WHOLESALE COST INCREASES FROM THE MANUFACTURERS WITHOUT REFLECTING SOME PART OF THESE INCREASES IN RETAIL PRICES...
...laymen and scientists alike. But as an oceanographer, I firmly believe that now is the time for down-to-earth, technologically complex marine projects to receive a vigorous shot in the arm. The ocean industry is far from having reached its full potential, and if given a boost could absorb at least some of the unemployed space workers. The overriding consideration, however, is the soaring pop ulation growth on our planet, with its obvious food, space and energy needs-and serious pollution problems...
...less psychological motive for continued presence in Africa is the markets the colonies provide. The African territories absorb about a quarter of Portugal's exports...
...more chance there is in. the interim of raising the world's poor toward a decent life. But only a superoptimist would insist that growth can continue forever; that would presuppose that resources are literally infinite. Even if the earth's resources and its capacity to absorb pollution could be extended without limit -or if humanity could colonize other worlds-no one could be certain that that could be done rapidly enough to permit infinite growth at the pace and of the type occurring today. To banish the Club of Rome's nightmares, some changes in growth...
Theoretically, gambling ought to be an interesting obsession. In this engaging first novel James Guetti is not always certain just what the obsession is: an untrammeled subculture with openings to the metaphysical or merely a shabby compulsion that can absorb the addict to the point of rendering every thing else in his life irrelevant. Yet it is precisely that ambivalence that makes his book interesting...