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Controversy or not, conservation or not, one overriding fact remains: we'll need the power sooner or later. So let's get it from the cheapest source at hand-nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1978 | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...against this is the nearly $1 million it can cost over a lifetime to support a child handicapped in birth, or the in calculable emotional toll on the family with a dead baby. Declares the director of the Ohio network, Cleveland's Dr. Irwin Merkatz: "Regionalization is the cheapest new advance in medicine that we've ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Helping Hand for the Newborn | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...year. Confronted with a $2.50 can of beer, a $5 breakfast or a $30 minute-steak lunch, Americans beat a hasty retreat?"chuckling in amazement," says a shopkeeper on Tokyo's Ginza. Says a veteran tourist who is staying at Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, where the cheapest room for two is $80 a night: "It's just plain scandalous. I never thought I'd see the day when the greenback would turn into Mickey Mouse money. It really hurts my pride as an American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dizzy Days for the Dollar | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...zippered greensward of AstroTurf that the locals fondly call Mardi Grass. Also the biggest set of TV tubes: six superscreens, each 22 ft. wide by 26 ft. high, suspended from a 75-ton gondola, which afford the farthest-out viewer in the cheapest, loftiest seat a closeup of a cheerleader or an instant replay of a football fumble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Superdome Named Desire | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

Electricity is another key issue for Ray and the state ?ironically so, since Washington once had far more power than it could use and still has the cheapest household rates in the country (about one-quarter the cost in New York State). In the '30s the Federal Government began damming the lordly 1,210-mile Columbia River; the Grand Coulee, the Bonneville and 24 other dams in the system are the heart of a Northwest network that generates 43% of all the hydroelectric power in the nation, yet even that is not enough. Demand in the region is expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dixy Rocks the Northwest | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

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