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Despite the improvement in utility finances, executives at the Denver meeting could not cite a single canceled project that has been reinstated. And even if all the projects were rescheduled, they would represent the barest glimmer of the nation's power needs. Over the next 15 years, according to some estimates, utilities ought to invest a staggering $750 billion in new plants. No one seems to have much idea how they can raise the money. W. Donham Crawford, president of the Edison Institute, notes that most utility stocks are still selling for less than book value, a situation that...
Haim Zadok told a Hillel-sponsored forum that although Israel undertakes preventive detention for national security reasons, the number of detainees has been "kept to the barest minimum," and has not exceeded 20 at any one time...
Charlie and Bill are creatures of the present. We know nothing of their pasts and only the barest outlines of their futures. Bill is separated from his wife, but the details of the breakup remain unknown. He is the editor of a magazine, but the nature of the magazine and the work he does for it remain opaque. We see the women Charlie lives with, but how he came to do so, and what their relationship is, we are never told. As far as we can make out, Charlie has no profession, and all his time is spent gambling...
Shantytown refugee camps have risen like festering sores throughout the region, providing the barest relief to half a million people. Their individual monthly ration is only 26 Ibs. of flour and 4.4 Ibs. of dried milk, the nutritional equivalent of about one-third of the average American's diet. In their weakened condition, disease has spread quickly. Typhus, dysentery, measles and gastroenteritis are rampant. At the teeming Lazaret camp near Niamey, Niger's capital, cholera threatens the 15,000 refugees. In Chad, some emaciated nomads begged a U.N. official not to send them medicines, pleading that death from...
...HIGH SPOTS of the book are the interviews. Shenker's interviewing technique is to keep his presence to a minimum, leaving description at the barest essentials and letting his subjects speak for themselves. Many of the conversations are really just strings of quotations, supplemented only by some remarkably vivid photographs by Jill Krementz. This approach usually proves successful, thanks to the caliber of the interviewees; unlike Rex Reed, Shenker doesn't have to resort to bitchy observations to spice up vapid quotes. Inevitably, some of the conversations are not all that fascinating, and at least one--a piece on Noam...