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...recent study funded by the National Science Foundation examined Project Rulison from every angle-financial, social, environmental. Their finding: on all counts, the blast was a bust...
...Rolls-Royce company went bust in 1971, overwhelmed by the cost of producing advanced jet engines for American planes; its aero-engine division was nationalized by the Crown and a new operation, Rolls-Royce Motors, was created to continue making cars, diesel engines and turbine parts. The motor business has done well; it posted nearly $10 million in pre-tax profits last year on sales of $110 million. So Receiver Edward Rupert Nicholson had planned to sell shares in it to the British public and use the proceeds to settle bills run up by the aero-engine operation...
...looks for a return of ten times his original investment," says Harlan Anderson, head of Anderson Investment Co. in New Canaan, Conn., "but you're lucky if you get that kind of return in one case out of ten, so it evens out." And some venture capitalists go bust along with the businesses they buy into; 400-odd S.B.I.C.s have perished since...
...group solidarity, or a Malibu Colony security guard impersonating Hollywood stars. If some of the shtiks misfire, Altman keeps on coming with others that don't. And aside from Gould and a stoned-out Sterling Hayden (Altman's film embarrasses us with this great screen presence's one enormous bust), the director's cast is good enough to follow him. Vilmos Szigmond's neon-tinged photography and Lou Lombardo's understated, rhythmic editing help a lot--as they did in their other Altman collaborations...
...fuse of number of times during the first ten days of the occupation, and AIM leaders prepped the embattled village for a pitched battle. Russel C. Means, the top AIM leader, seemed almost exultant at the prospect of a confrontation. But the bust never came...