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Outwardly, American Express shows no sign of concern about the increased competition ahead. Louis Gerstner, head of the company's card division, says he is "respectful" of some of his rivals, especially Diner's Club, but is skeptical about the bank cards that want to add traveler's checks. The business, he says, "may look simple, but it is very, very complex, requiring significant economies of scale and control that take years to develop." Yet many industry analysts believe American Express is facing some tough problems: while there is less and less room for it to grow...
...accident is 75,000 times as high. Nor does radiation now appear to be an unreasonable risk. Coal-fired plants actually emit slightly more radiation than nuclear reactors. Americans are already exposed to radiation from natural sources, color television and medical X rays. Routine operation of nuclear plants would add almost nothing to this exposure. In fact, a person living next door to a nuclear reactor in, say, New York, is exposed to less radiation than someone who lives in mile-high Denver...
...team lost. The Sox doyen. Carl Yastrzemski. injured his nagging back, then his shoulder, then his wrist. Pepper-Pot Second Baseman Jerry Remy fractured his wrist last month, and is still playing with it taped. Dwight Evans was hit by a pitch and gets dizzy chasing fly balls. Add to that Catcher Carlton Fisk's broken rib, First Baseman George Scott's battered right middle finger. Third Baseman Butch Hobson's injured elbow and Centerfielder Fred Lynn's pulled stomach muscle, and you get a team that might be better off playing softball for Massachusetts General...
...prices will actually increase our dependence on foreign energy imports by encouraging consumers to switch from gas to oil. And the burden borne by consumers who stick with gas will be tremendous: James Flug, head of a Washington-based consumer group called Energy Action, estimates that the bill will add $35 to $55 billion overall to the national energy price tag over a maddeningly vague period of time--and this does not even include inflation. The average cost of gas in 1985 will be 353 per cent of what it was in 1977, and 1608 per cent...
...most significant factor in the accumulation of CO2 is the burning of fossil fuels. Especially worrisome is the Carter Administration's choice of coal as the U.S.'s great energy hope. Unlike competing nuclear power, which gives off no CO2, coal will inevitably add to a buildup of the gas, as will the increased consumption of other fossil fuels. A National Academy of Sciences study panel warns that if the use of coal proceeds along the Administration's projections, atmospheric concentration of CO2 might reach four to eight times that of the pre-industrial level...