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SAMOTLOR, beneath the 100-sq.-mi. Lake Samotlor, is believed to be the world's richest single oil deposit, comparable in potential to the entire Alaskan North Slope. When fully developed, it will have more than 3,000 producing wells. Despite cold so extreme that steel becomes brittle and brake fluids freeze, Soviet drilling and construction crews are expanding production at a rate previously achieved only in Libya...
YAKUTSK, the capital of the republic of Yakutia in northeastern Siberia, lies at the heart of a huge gas deposit estimated by the Russians to measure 460 trillion cu. ft., or one-quarter more than all known deposits in the Middle East. Moscow announced last week that production had begun at the nearby field of Middle Vilyui, but it will not be easy to get the gas out. Yakutsk's Permafrost Institute is experimenting with new techniques to pipe gas and oil through the perennially frozen earth...
...returnable beverage bottle has become a sort of industrial relic. So has that once hallowed implement to puncture beer cans, the "church key." But their more convenient replacements-the no-deposit, no-return bottle and the pull-tab can-are now too much in evidence. Americans annually gulp the contents of some 40 billion bottles and 50 billion cans. The one-time-only use results in massive littering...
...rightly guessed would rise in value against the dollar. Though much of this money may eventually return, its absence now further restricts the supply of lendable funds. Interest rates have been going up on bonds and Treasury bills. Banks, for example, are paying higher interest on the certificates of deposit that they sell to investors than they are getting back when they lend the same money at the prime rate...
...have a vasectomy if the loan company so wished. Once the loan was secured, she set about to rid the mortgage business of the common demand for baby letters. Independently, three national women's groups have taken up the cause and have filed a complaint with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The question it poses: Must some women mortgage the cradle to get the homestead...