Word: containers
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Carter's dilemma was that any comprehensive approach to energy consumption and production had to contain specific proposals repugnant to many groups. On energy, indeed, all Americans belong to one or more special or sectional interests, depending upon their personal transportation, heating, and vocational or leisure habits. Carter's program faced the danger of being sliced to death even by those in sympathy with its broad goals. It would have been politically hard, if not impossible, for Carter to demand more severe sacrifices by everybody when Congress might not even pass a package requiring small sacrifices. The proposals, after...
American medicine has been able to compound all manner of miracles, ranging from the creation of powerful antibiotics that can dispatch a brash bacillus to the introduction of death-defying surgical procedures. Yet there is one illness that has baffled U.S. doctors: how to contain sharply rising medical costs, which have climbed from $42 billion to nearly $140 billion (almost twice the inflation rate) in a decade and now total more than the country spends on national defense. One reason for the soaring costs is more sophisticated care, but another is the "third party" problem -more than 90% of hospital...
...solution is another enzyme called a DNA ligase, which cements the foreign gene into place in the opening of the plasmids. The result of these unions are new loops of DNA called plasmid chimeras because, like the Chimera-the mythical lion-goat-serpent after which they are named-they contain the components of more than one organism...
...Commitment to a program to spur business investment. It would include an attempt to reduce uncertainties about future Government regulations-for instance, pollution-control standards -that are delaying capital projects, as well as renewed pledges that the Administration's tax reform proposals next fall will contain investment incentives...
...more. The company already holds 35% of the market in utility boilers and is in a good position to get more. Two-thirds of the boilers that it makes are fired by coal, and the Carter Administration's energy program, to be announced April 20, is expected to contain provisions enabling the Government to order many factories and power plants to convert from natural gas to coal as a fuel (TIME cover, April 4). Even by simple arithmetic, B & W is an attractive acquisition candidate. In 1976 it earned $53 million on revenues of $1.7 billion-a profits...