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...Thursday evening, two I.R.A. bombs exploded inside pubs in Birmingham, England's second largest city, leaving 19 people dead and 184 injured. It was the worst single bloodletting since the present agony in Northern Ireland began-costlier than even "Bloody Friday," July 21, 1972, when twelve people were slaughtered and 130 injured in a series of bombings in Belfast...
...others who absolutely have to use cars, tractors or trucks to do their jobs. These refunds could be made through a combination of lower payroll withholding taxes, higher welfare and Social Security payments and even some direct subsidies. If farmers got an income tax break to compensate for the costlier gasoline, there would be no cause for food prices to rise as a consequence...
Going into the negotiations, the rank and file were in a feisty mood and fully aware of their new power in an era of scarcer, costlier energy. Expressing the attitude of the majority, West Virginia Miner Jim ("Catfish") Barlow, 27, said: "This time we are going to get something or we're going to shut down everything-everything. I feel we got to get it now or it's gonna be too late...
...hire engineers to build them. In 1967 he observed that while large city newspapers had the money to invest in modern phototypesetting machines that cost roughly $30,000 each, smaller daily and weekly papers were still struggling with old-fashioned Linotype machines that were four tunes slower and far costlier to operate. So he instructed the engineers at his Compugraphic Corp. to develop a small, stripped-down phototypesetting machine that he could sell to small dailies and weeklies for no more than $10,000. Today Compugraphic is the nation's largest manufacturer of phototypesetting equipment, big and small alike...
...nuclear blasting for natural gas looks quite bleak. The program is already under attack from environmentalists who fear that the atomic explosions may damage buildings on the surface, trigger earthquakes and leave behind dangerous radiation. The General Accounting Office recently noted that nuclear recovery of gas could be costlier than its proponents originally thought; the cracks created in the sandstone by the A-bombs may close faster than the AEC'S experts had predicted, limiting the amount of gas that could escape. In addition, the GAO touched on a subject worrying many oil companies. The natural gas deposits...