Word: anties
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Alvin Weinberg, director of Tennessee's Institute for Energy Analysis, and a physicist considered by some anti-nukes to be about the most thoughtful proponent of nuclear power, calls for severely limiting new sites for nuclear power plants. He would permit expansion only on 90 of the 100 sites where reactors are now operating or planned. Among the ten sites where he would allow no new construction: Indian Point, N.Y., near New York City; Zion, Ill., close to Chicago-and Three Mile Island. Concentrating construction at the other 90 sites, he believes, would result in the building of huge...
Meanwhile, another shocker on prices provided further evidence that after just five months, the President's Stage II anti-inflation effort is flagging. In March wholesale prices zoomed 1%, or at a compounded, annual rate of 12.7%, the same as in February. Leading the price index was food, which jumped 1.2%, with particularly severe rises in beef and veal. So far this year, beef prices have increased at an annual rate of more than 100% and are expected to remain oppressively high for the rest of the year. The standard Administration forecast calls for inflation to moderate...
Flourocarbons are believed to harm the Earth's protective ozone shield. Deodorants, anti-perspirants, hair sprays, colognes, insecticides, spray paints, air fresheners, furniture polishes and household cleaners used flourocarbons widely...
Speaking before an anti-inflation conference sponsored by the New England Regional Commission. Kahn said he opposes mandatory wage and price standards, calling them a "stinking mess...
...President's Council on Wage and Price Stability is reviewing the rising prices of several commodities and is considering some anti-trust actions, Kahn said...