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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...give cash and technical aid to states to assess their nuclear power needs; intervenors will be given funds in certain cases to fight against location of new plants, a bow to the conservationists. The bill also stipulates that once approval has been given by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build a plant, it cannot be stalled by further litigation, except on grounds of health or safety. Though that seems a huge loophole, the Government hopes that the provision will curtail the protracted environmental lawsuits that have hobbled the industry...
...nuclear plant sited in their area, more than half of those polled answered no. Only a quarter of the 1,000 respondents approved. And voters in California's Kern County, a rich, conservative farming area, rejected by about 2 to 1 a proposal by Western utilities to build a $5 billion nuclear complex large enough to supply electricity for a city of 5 million...
...might well have steadied the dollar. But coming after dollars had been inundating currency markets, it was clearly too little, too late. Money traders were disappointed that the U.S. announced no plans to sell Treasury bonds to foreign central banks and take loans from private foreign banks to build its reserves of foreign currency, as had been rumored. Said one leading German banker of the $740 million to be raised by selling SDKs: "That much can be spent in two hours over the telephone." Moreover, Solomon again emphasized that the U.S. intends to buy up only as many dollars...
...storyline is so slack. Screenwriter John Farris has plotted the film with routine situations that are unworthy of the marvelous ingredients, and although DePalma has structured several dazzling sequences, loaded with bursts of subjective camerawork and rhythmically perfect editing, there are too many dead spots for the suspense to build properly...
...father, handed his guest book to the already famous author "and with the total disdain of the nobleman for the artist, said, 'Just your name, Mr. Proust. No thoughts.' ") The U.S. he sees as still an open society, free and easy, rambunctious, optimistic, cheerfully ready to build on both its successes and its mistakes. He likes American lingo and quotes a lot of it (Harry Truman on Jack Kennedy: "He had his ear so close to the ground it was full of grasshoppers"). He likes interstate highways, supermarkets, fast-food shops, fast talkers, the entire "discardo" culture...