Word: alm
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...First and foremost, he is a disciplinarian in the Vince Lombardi mold. In his first team meeting in 1985, he looked around and saw players slouching in their seats. He ordered them in no uncertain terms to sit at attention from that point on. Says senior defensive tackle Jeff Alm, who is almost 1 ft. taller and 120 lbs. heavier than Holtz: "He's not the biggest guy in the world, but he seems to possess a lot of power." Last month a furious Holtz told the team he would resign if they ever fought again with opposing players...
...graduate school professors went to Washington to join the Reagan Administration. In June, Kennedy School of Government lecturer Alvin Alm became the number-two man at the Environmental Protection Agency following a shake-up in the scandal-ridden department. Alm, who also headed the K-School's energy-security program, came to Harvard in 1977 after serving then-President Jimmy Carter's Energy Department. The Law School's leading regulation specialist. Douglas H. Ginsburg, announced in July that he would take a leave to serve as an assistant in the Department of Justice's anti-trust division...
...Alm: I don't think you'll ever get a consensus among citizens. I think what's really important is how citizens react to market signals, and they certainly don't react to reach optimum decisions, but they do react. We look at demand for heating oil or demand for gasoline and they're down People do react responsibly to higher prices. But in terms of any new consensus, may be in a new generation. I mean, my daughter is certainly better than our generation at turning off lights and that sort of things, but I'm not optimistic about...
...Alm: I think the highest priority by far is the emergency preparedness area. And the highest single priority there would be to fill up a Strategic Petroleum Reserve. We have an opportunity to take advantage of lower prices. If the world oil market is going to be tight by the end of the decade, as I predict it will, it takes a maximum effort just to achieve a 750-million barrel target. If the reserve is not filled, it will not be available even in the 1990s. And I think if one looks at where all the military expenditures...
...Alm: Well, first of all, nuclear power is the fastest-growing source of energy. And the reason for this is simply that there are a number of plants that are in the backlog or in the pipeline that are nearing completion. The real issue of nuclear energy is how many of the 60 or so plants currently under construction will actually be built? And that's going to be heavily dependent on demand, on the financial viability of the utilities that are building the plants, and on the attitudes of public utility commissions. In terms of new orders...