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...orders for 14 reactors and deferred 96 others. Among the reasons: harassment by environmentalists, government red tape and delays, the difficulty of financing. Says Robert Kirby, chairman of Westinghouse, the biggest builder of nuclear reactors: "We increasingly will be faced with brownouts and blackouts unless we do something to bolster our total power output...
...deliberately selective use of Scripture to bolster one's point of view cannot be tolerated regardless of the validity or worthlessness of the viewpoint...
...America, war no longer served to create unity but to sever it. It was the home-grown calamity of a blackout that welded a populace; the oil embargo served not to weaken national resolve, but to bolster it -although that resolve ebbed when the gas pumps flowed. In these cases, moral equivalency worked because the crises were perceived as serious but not desperate (the embargo) or desperate but not serious (the blackout). Americans could wryly agree with Historian D.W. Brogan's citation of the contrast between democratic government and the nondemocratic, which "is like a splendid ship, with...
...bolster his case, Murphy can marshal some figures of his own: some 50 per cent of all Massachusetts drug busts in 1974 were for simple possession and 90 per cent of all marijuana cases involved possession of one ounce or less. Court costs for marijuana arrests totaled $10-12 million that year, the most recent time period for which statistics are available...
...been begging for outside help to stem an invasion of Zaire's southern Shaba region by Angola-based Katangese rebels (TIME, April 18). All of a sudden, aid for Mobutu's regime was pouring in. Morocco sent 1,500 troops and promised 1,500 more to bolster Zaire's seemingly ineffectual 30,000-man army. France airlifted the Moroccans' equipment, along with a handful of French instructors, to Zaire. China contributed supplies, and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat sent a military fact-finding mission. From Sudan, which shares a border with Zaire, President Jaafar Numeiry promised...