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...area of Portland. The Red Cross installed a bank of phones for use if the current "standby alert" for a Portland-area disaster goes "red." Two of the Pacific Northwest's largest users of electricity, Reynolds Metals in Oregon and Alcoa in Washington, are particularly threatened. A power cutoff of five hours would wreak such havoc that, Reynolds estimates, it would cost the company $7 million to start up its plant again...
...Senate had taken the same action, then, under heavy White House arm-twisting, agreed to delay the ban for 60 days. Ford had termed any curtailment "a misguided and extremely harmful measure," since it would hinder U.S. efforts to resolve the Cyprus dispute. The House vote to apply the cutoff was 187 to 171. Ford indicated that he would promptly veto the measure. Congressional leaders then postponed the recess until this week, when an attempt will be made to override the veto...
Best act of contrition: the League of Arab States' ad announcing that the fuel cutoff to the U.S. was done "more in sorrow than in anger...
...money and overburdened with large classes, so they arrived at an obvious conclusion: cut back the number of students in Expos, and the money will go around better as class sizes shrink. They proposed an exemption from Expos for students with SAT and advanced placement scores above a cutoff level...
This discovery was the first proof that neurotransmitter levels change following a cutoff of blood to the brain; it forms the basis of the Wurtman-Zervas theory. The two neuroscientists speculate that cells starved of oxygen as the result of strokes die and allow their stored dopamine to escape. Dopamine is normally released only in minuscule amounts, and a sudden flood of the chemical can be lethal. Excess dopamine can cause nearby blood vessels to contract, cutting off oxygen to neighboring cells and thus spreading the stroke damage. After the flood has subsided, there is a serious shortage...