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...CONSERVATION. Simply because the U.S. uses so much energy, it can also save a lot. But conservation is often very expensive, especially when large plants must be converted to different fuels or "retrofitted" with more efficient equipment. There also are limits beyond which conservation would become a debilitating brake on the nation's economic activity...
HONOLULU: The main airport does not have approach lights for landing, and lacks runway groovings to help aircraft brake. The association charges that the procedures used by Honolulu's control tower need "review...
...biggest fear holding down investment is of a renewal of inflation to double-digit levels. Once a prod to "buy now before the price goes up," inflation has become a brake on capital spending. Says M. Kathryn Eickhoff, vice president of Townsend-Greenspan & Co., Manhattan economic consultants: "An inflationary environment makes calculating rates of return on new investment difficult, even though profits as a whole are likely to rise as inflation advances...
...Didion's romantic imagination of disaster that puts innocence and corruption on their inevitable collision course. There is, after all, some Charlotte Douglas lurking in most of us. How often have we felt vaguely paralyzed by the high beams of an onrushing history that does not brake for small game? When she began her column for LIFE in 1969, Didion announced: "You are getting a woman who for some time now has felt radically separated from ... the ideas that seem to interest other people ... I have felt myself a sleepwalker, alert only to the stuff of bad dreams...
What buyer resistance there is has not yet appreciably bitten into sales or changed coffee-drinking habits. Even at $3 per pound, home-brewed coffee still costs only about 5? per cup. The most effective coffee-price brake may be applied by consumers in the countries where the beans are grown. Brazil is second only to the U.S. in drinking coffee and prices have more than doubled, to $1.63 per pound, in 18 months. That may seem cheap to an American-but the average annual per capita income in Brazil is only...