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...stresses potential economic benefits: new jobs both in the refinery and in byproduct industries, bigger municipal tax revenues, lower fuel prices. In addition, says Company President David Scoll, a former admiralty lawyer, possible oil spills will be contained during loading and unloading by bubbling air curtains and booms. To avert collisions, tankers will use special guidance systems. The refinery will be equipped with antipollution devices. As a bonus, Clean Fuels has even offered to treat Searsport's sewage-free...
...Means Committee, Wilbur Mills swings almost as much power as the President on many domestic issues. Lately, the cherubic Congressman from Kensett, Ark., has also been moving into foreign policy, opening a one-man campaign to solve a long-festering problem in relations between the U.S. and Japan and avert an international trade war. Last week his well-intentioned efforts led to a direct confrontation with President Nixon, who was clearly annoyed. The break could develop into a power struggle that would unsettle U.S. trade policy and possibly affect the fate of revenue sharing, welfare reform, and other major Nixon...
...SHORT, Jones has fulfilled another obligation on his Delacorte contract, but has done nothing to avert the further trampling of a reputation For pithy commentary, one must turn to the Victor Hugo quote on the bookjacket...
...well equipped are reactors to avert accidents? Out of almost 4000 construction standards for nuclear plants only about 100 have been officially recognized. And in the recent construction of a reactor in Gravel Neck, Virginia, the welding superintendent admitted that as many as 5000 welds in vital parts of the structure could be defective. A cooling water failure might precipitate a "runaway" which could cause a high-power steam explosion within one-hundredth of a second. Vernon's emergency cooling system takes from three to ten seconds to become effectively operational...
...soon after everyone has had a chance to take a tumble and a few intrepid souls are even smiling a little at each other (the smug at the very good and the very good at the very pretty, who still, however, avert their eyes among themselves), the circles break up into pairs, and you are left standing next to a dapper and muscular fellow named Henry. Henry wears a blue, sleeveless tank top and appears to know what he is doing. He treats you as if you could use a bit of his help, but are not hopeless. Silently...