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...What is more, these areas are only 40 miles or so from pumping station No. 1 on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which was built to carry oil for the nearby Prudhoe Bay oilfields. That area was particularly attractive because it meant that only relatively short feeder lines would have to be built to get oil to the pipeline, which would carry it into U.S. markets...
Never mind the notes, print the napkin, a visiting reporter thinks contentedly, as lunch at Craig Claiborne's eases toward coffee. Claiborne is a cherisher of food, a distinguished feeder who is himself a renowned cook, and since 1957 he has conferred distinction on the New York Times as its food editor. It has been said that this private house of his here in East Hampton, near the eastern tip of Long Island, is one of the best restaurants in the U.S. Claiborne repeats this bouquet in his new memoir-with-recipes, A Feast Made for Laughter (Doubleday...
...government, on the other hand, went out of its way to accommodate the earnest horde and expected its costs to exceed $ 1 million, including overtime pay to the 5,000 police assigned to oversee the crowds at the U.N., in the park and in more than a dozen converging "feeder marches" from all over the city. Assisting the police were the rally's 3,000 volunteer "peace keepers...
...laser-guided land graders can now almost perfectly flatten the terrain so that water is not wasted in runoff. Electrodes planted in the fields can measure soil wetness and determine exactly when water is needed. Today, these techniques are rarities, but they may soon be routine. As Kansas Cattle Feeder Harold Burnett puts it: "Water misers" will last longer. But even the stingiest will go under if neighbors are wasteful and the whole aquifer dries...
...more alarming, TIME'S board stressed that the developing downturn is no longer confined largely to housing and autos, but has now spilled over into so-called feeder industries like steel, machine tools, building supplies and, through them, into the national economy as a whole. Figures released last week by the Federal Reserve Board showed that industrial production dropped by 2.1% in November, the fourth monthly decline in a row. That was the largest one-month slump since May of 1980, and was a clear signal that worse difficulties are still to come. Meanwhile, the Fed also reported that...