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These builders blame the overruns on poor planning by the admirals. Repeated changes in specifications, for instance, have been made after a contract has been negotiated and even while the ship was being built. According to Electric Boat, this plan-as-you-build technique caused at least 40,000 alterations in the design of the Los Angeles-class attack submarine. Most of these changes created a ripple effect, because shifting the location of one piece of equipment usually meant modifying dozens of other parts of the ship...
...Saudis realize that with so small a population they cannot possibly build an army large enough to defend their vast frontiers. (Indeed, simply to begin developing their country, they have imported a foreign labor force of about one million.) Their only hope for defense, they believe, lies in acquiring modern weapons, like the F-15, that require limited manpower. The Saudis believe they need a military force capable of holding out against attack for at least two or three days−just long enough for a powerful friend to come to their aid. They want that friend...
First came approval of plans to build a number of new nuclear plants; then--last week--the announcement of a sale of enriched uranium to India. Perhaps the best example, however, of the Carter administration's softening of its earlier stand on nuclear energy is in its attitude towards the liquid metal fast-breeder reactor and the deadly plutonium it employs. The story of the watering down of the anti-breeder position is a many-faceted one involving Executive-Congressional power struggles, the background and geographical origins of individuals involved in the dispute, and questions of illusion versus reality...
Judge Roger Donahue of Suffolk Superior Court dismissed a suit brought by the selectmen of Brookline, who had charged that the University should have obtained a "certificate of need" before beginning to build the Medical Area energy project...
...their suit, they charged that Harvard has continued to build the diesel electric-generating portion of the plant in violation of the January decision of a state environmental agency. Although Donahue refused the injunction request, he did not dismiss the groups' case, which will be heard in Superior Court at a later date...