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...course, the ice ponds could only be used for buildings with a large amount of empty land near by. It would take about 100 tons of ice, or enough to fill a 20-sq.-ft. hole 10 ft. deep, to cool the average American home from spring to autumn...
...embargo of the U.S. echoed through the Arab world, petroleum prices stayed stagnant on the bellwether spot market, where much of the world's current excess is traded daily. At approximately $32 per bbl., spot market crude is now selling for nearly 20% less than last autumn...
...President also reiterated a pledge, made by Secretary of State Alexander Haig at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Rome last month, that negotiations would start before the end of the year. Though Schmidt prefers that the talks begin in early autumn, he did not expect Reagan to move up the timetable and thus had to be satisfied with the President's assurances...
...major factor holding back robust growth is those staggering interest rates. Board members expect the Federal Reserve to keep the cost of money high for some time to come. The board's consensus: interest rates will stay up, although they will ease a little by autumn. This will hold the economy's real growth for the current quarter to 1.1% and to less than 1% during the summer. The gain for the year as a whole is now expected to be 2.9%. In the gentlest terms, that amounts to a pause later in the year. Lester Thurow, M.I.T...
Even the visionaries on Manhattan's Broadcasting Row slept soundly that autumn night in 1957 when the space age was born with the launching of Sputnik I. In those days CBS and NBC owned the U.S. television audience, with tiny ABC, known then as "the Almost Broadcasting Company," struggling to catch up. In the years that followed ABC closed the gap, but it is not simply a three-way rivalry any more. Proliferating communications satellites-the progeny of Sputnik-now offer an alternative method of linking up new networks, cheaper and more flexible than the long-distance telephone lines...