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Instead, some nations are returning to preindustrial methods. Over the past few months, the price of tractors in rural Thailand has fallen 20% as fuel has become scarce and expensive. Prices of water buffaloes, which do not consume diesel fuel but do produce free fertilizer, have soared. Some Thai officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Poor Suffer the Most | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Estimates of how much oil could be tapped off Alaska's entire outer continental shelf (OCS), including the Beaufort Sea, range up to 25 billion bbl., or nearly three times the reserves in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay field. Some oilmen believe that with a big development effort, Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hot Prospect | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

That is the word being spread by Forestry Expert Michael Benge, an employee of the federal Agency for International Development, who has become a bureaucratic Johnny Appleseed for the leucaena. Benge reports that in some tropical lands, leaves from the tree are eaten like candy by children and, dipped in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Schmoo Tree | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

The House and Senate have already passed by large margins two of the three major Carter recommendations, and will soon begin working out minor differences before sending the legislation to the White House. One act would create an Energy Mobilization Board, which would be able to bulldoze through bureaucratic red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Bit of Good Energy News | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Some teams don't feel it's worth the hassle to become a varsity sport. The sports department reaches its bureaucratic claws into coach selection, the team plays a prescribed schedule and everything goes under Harvard regulation. On the other hand, there are a few benefits--a paid coach, an...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: So, You Wanna Be a Letterman? | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

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