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...this fall, extended $500 million worth of loans during 1979. Since January, American banks have also contributed to a $200 million loan to the Taiwan Power Co. General Electric has joined with Taiwan companies on a $30 million turbine-generators project. Said Robert P. Parker, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan, earlier this month: "We have unhesitatingly reaffirmed our confidence in Taiwan...
...engine is far more economical. With electricity generated by solar panels, it strips electrons off the atoms of vaporized mercury passing through a coffee-can-like chamber, converting them to ions. Expelled at high speeds in a focused beam, the charged particles act like a rocket exhaust, propelling the craft forward. Though its thrust is minuscule and far too feeble to lift payloads from the earth, the ion engine performs efficiently in the vacuum of space. It can function for years because it draws on solar energy and uses fuel sparingly. It can be stopped and restarted countless times...
...scars and some wounds that will never heal. The music remains intact, inviolate. No other group has ever pushed rock so far, or asked so much from it. No other band has ever matched its sound, a particular combination of sonic onslaught and melodic delicacy that is like chamber music in the middle of a commando raid. No other group, in return, has ever had so much asked of it by an audience which takes it as an absolute article of faith that, every time out, The Who plays for mortal stakes...
...leverage is also weak because all commercial activity with Iran has declined since the revolution last winter brought about the nationalization of the banks and most private industry. A few years ago, the membership of the Iran-American Chamber of Commerce was a Who's Who of U.S. business. From A (Allis-Chalmers Overseas) to X (Xerox), the list numbered close to 250 and included practically every major U.S. company in international trade...
...second, more radical method involves cooking the shale underground. Occidental, which has pioneered this process, plans to dig at least 2,000 chambers connected by tunnels under a 5,000-acre shale tract leased from the Government. The chambers, each about the size of a football field and 250 ft. to 300 ft. high, are created by drilling parallel tunnels leading from a vertical mineshaft into the rock at two different depths. The shale in between is then reduced to rubble by explosions in both the top and bottom. Each chamber is sealed, and pilot-light burners are lowered...