Word: demands
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...year, nuclear plants produced 12.5% of the nation's electricity, or something less than 4% of its total energy. Utilities have cut back sharply on their once ambitious plans for nuclear expansion because of rocketing costs of plant construction, regulatory and legal delays, and uncertainty about how rapidly demand for electricity will grow. President Nixon's energy planners foresaw atomic plants supplying 40% of all U.S. electricity by the year 2000. Jimmy Carter's strategists can see no more than 25% (or less than 8% of total energy consumption), and there is much doubt that even that...
...annoying truisms about big ideas is they usually demand big money. The Core Curriculum, the general education program which the Faculty will begin to phase in next year, is no exception. So it was with an equally big sign of relief that the Faculty this week accepted the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's $1.25 million grant for the Core, the first grant exclusively designated to aid the Core's development...
BOSTON--Alfred Kahn, director of the President's Council on Wage and Price Stability, said yesterday that wage and price standards will not be effective in curbing inflation without restraints on consumer demand...
...example, Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy, said he would oppose the legislation unless Bowersock could cite precisely the number of hours the reforms would demand of the Faculty...
That estimate may be much too low. Not only will the OPEC action add at least 2? to the already rising costs of gasoline, but as the price goes up, people will demand bigger paychecks from their employers. That will spread the increases through the whole economy, multiplying the impact. The latest OPEC boost will have a direct adverse effect on the nation's balance of payments. Last week the Commerce Department released some cheering figures showing that the trade deficit shrank in February to a 22-month low, in part because of a $700 million decline...