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...Metropolitan District Commission, which supplies water for most eastern Massachusetts cities and towns. Wednesday launched a major water-conservation drive, citing reduced water levels in its Quabbin Reservoir, now at 85 per cent of capacity...
Water usage in Cambridge has increased 25 per cent in the last two weeks, though, and Fagone said antiquated pumping equipment at the city's Fresh Pond treatment plant is feeling the strain. "It's tough on the old equipment: if one pump quit tomorrow, we'd be in big trouble." Fagone said, adding "I am doing a lot of praying...
...tank, which costs, in constant dollars, seven times as much as the Sherman tank of World War II, yet whose turbine engines cannot tolerate dust; the command-control-communications-intelligence network, designed to control military maeuvers from a central point, which works, under ideal conditions, 38 per cent of the time; the TOW missile, launched by a soldier, which demands that he stand absolutely still in the middle of a battlefield for ten seconds while guiding his warhead at a far-off tank; missiles guided by t.v. cameras that destroy fenceposts as often as enemy targets; and even...
...them. He repeats many of the common arguments about the volunteer army as employer of last resort. For example, this astounding statistic--in 1980, of the 100,860 men who were serving their first term as enlisted men in the infantry or armor artillery, exactly 25 (men, not per cent) had college degrees. But he adds new dimensions to the usual discussion of social inequality by stressing he military effects of an all-poor army. "I think the mixture of middle-class men had a real modulating effect," he quotes one expert as saying. "It made it much easier...
...modified projections used by Social Security in its efforts to get Congressional approval for President Reagan's package of cuts were 8.3 per cent for 1981, 8.7 per cent for 1982 and 9.7 per cent...