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...prompt Americans to reduce their "extravagant" use of gas. But another motive is to raise an extra $10 billion a year, to "be held in reserve" either to reduce the national debt or, if necessary, balance the budget. Translation: the extra money is needed to make sure that revenues exceed spending in the next fiscal year and produce a surplus now estimated at up to $3 billion...
...physicians don't collaborate with the government and persuade them to abandon nuclear weapons, "our technological capacity might exceed our moral capabilities," Robert J. Lifton, Yale professor of psychiatry, said Saturday
...Thames were elevated to more than 5 meters (17 ft.) above the mean water level. More recently, the height has been increased to nearly 6 meters (19 ft.). But even these towering embankments could not cope with an extreme combination of circumstances. While Thames tides normally do not exceed 4.6 meters (15 ft.), the level can be pushed far higher by sudden onslaughts of water. In 1976, a 2.4-meter (8 ft.) surge was recorded on a low tide. If such a surge came atop one of the highest tides, it could raise the river to 1.2 meters...
...tire business too. The hardest hit has been Uniroyal, target of a 40-day walkout last summer that cost it an estimated $42 million in forgone sales. The strike helped convert a slender 1978 profit of $5.9 million on sales of $2.7 billion into a 1979 loss that may exceed $9 million. The most heavily debt-burdened of the companies, Uniroyal is also dragging around a $520 million unfunded vested pension liability, which is equal to more than 80% of its net worth...
Under the Harvard proposal, the power plant's diesel engines would have to be throttled back if the plant's nitrogen dioxide emissions exceed 320 micrograms per cubic meter--the safety level which Fierra established in his decision...