Word: canadians
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...American output of electricity will fall short of demand, starting in the Southeast, then in other areas, until by 1986 power shortages will become almost nationwide and stretch into Canada. That is the forecast of the National Electric Reliability Council, an organization composed of virtually all U.S. and many Canadian power companies. William McCollam Jr., chairman of the NERC, bluntly summarizes: "You're going to have curtailments, brownouts, blackouts...
...negotiating teams worked until 5:30 one morning last week to make final changes in the agreement. Only five hours later, as Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau stood by smiling, President Carter announced that Canada and the U.S. had decided to build a trans-Canadian pipeline that will carry natural gas from Alaska's North Slope to the Lower 48-and later may also funnel gas south from Canada's partly developed deposits in the Mackenzie Bay delta...
...billion. The victor is Northwest Energy Co., a firm based in Salt Lake City, which had sales last year of $626 million, mostly from a pipeline system supplying seven states. Its peppery chairman, John McMillian, a Texas independent oilman, masterminded the struggle. For his bested competitors, including the Canadian subsidiaries of Gulf, Exxon and Shell, McMillian had no sympathy: "If they had been more sensitive to what was going on, we wouldn't have had a chance...
...jury is still out" on the new version of the Kennedy School, Ira Jackson '70, assistant dean of the Kennedy School, says, because not enough time has passed to judge the career paths and accomplishments of its alumni. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) graduated from the old Littauer School, and Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill III is currently enrolled in the MPA program. But for the most part, the school aims to prepare the non-elected public servant. Recent graduates include Congressional legislative aides, staff analysts, a state cabinet secretary...
Viewer protection, for example, explains the shape of San Francisco's Embarcadero Fountain, designed by Canadian Sculptor Armand Vaillancourt. Its writhing concrete contours have been described as "Stonehenge unhinged with plumbing troubles," but the fountain splashes no passerby. It is, however, laced with "lily pad" walks that offer a spray-drenched way, daring visitors to walk beneath its eccentric geometry...