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Bunn also recommends the HEU be mixed with low-grade uranium which, while making the uranium unusable in bombs, would still be useful as power-reactor fuel...
...decide they are holding too many U.S. dollars, a risk that grows with the current account deficit. Right now the difference is made up by foreign investment funds flowing into the U.S. "The U.S. is dependent on that money," said Hormats. Inflation fears--or perceived better opportunities elsewhere--could "fuel a risk," he added, of foreign investors pulling...
...marked a maturation of Zimbabwe's democracy. The president had based his campaign on racial demagoguery, trying to portray a "no" vote as an endorsement of the colonial past. But the minds of the urban voters was focused less on the distant past than on the present - runaway inflation, fuel shortages, repression of dissent and a military adventure in support of President Laurent Kabila in neighboring Congo that prompted the IMF to cancel all assistance to Zimbabwe. The first warning sign was there last winter, when the capital, Harare, was shut down by two days of riotous protests against fuel...
Economic self-interest - and a good deal of prodding from a White House worried about spoiling Democratic election prospects in the fall - looks likely to impel OPEC to finally curtail spiraling oil prices. Fuel costs began to skyrocket last March when the group implemented a 7.5 percent cut in crude oil production that was also respected by nonmember oil-producing nations. The Clinton administration has been hands-off until now, saying it'd let the market self-adjust, but prices have just hit a nine-year high - with American emergency crude oil stores at a 25-year...
...role suggested by the photo of the gun-toting Gore pictured in 1988 campaign literature. When two reporters caught him switching the ribbons on a pair of cattle at the Iowa State Fair for a photo op, a staff memo cited it as the kind of incident that could fuel the perception that Gore "stretches the truth to suit a political moment...