Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Plant and federal officials said the bubble is now a much safer size and the reactor's temperature has dropped significantly. Harold Denton, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) chief of operations said yesterday that only two out of 177 fuel cells in the reactor were still overheating...
...American economy, including inflation, have little to do with the spending habits of government. While there is certainly room for improvement in policy, particularly in the coordination of monetary and fiscal measures, there is little that any President can do to stem the rising costs of food and fuel, the sectors pushing up costs and creating permanent inflationary pressure. These commodities are in short supply, and a growing, developing world will demand more and more of them. Unless the price rises high enough to summon forth significant new sources of supply--which in the case of oil seems...
Metropolitan Petroleum and White Fuel, the two major suppliers of heating oil to the University, also reported yesterday no interruptions of deliveries...
...strip-mine operations have benefited from low labor costs and long-term contracts at profitable rates. But other companies have wound up merely digging up the coal and dumping it on the ground. Utility companies have stockpiled so much that many now have no more room to store the fuel. Meanwhile, the surplus is forcing down contract prices for single shipments, which have tumbled from about $31 a ton a year ago to as little...
Prices will not stabilize until demand catches up with supply, and that could take months and even years if the Administration does not act effectively to make the fuel more attractive. In the long term, nothing is more important than enacting legislation to curb the regulatory rampages of the EPA, which in most cases is answerable to nobody. Right now, the most effective step the President can take is to free the price of domestic crude oil. As it floats up to world levels, bargain-basement coal will look more and more like the attractive alternative the White House keeps...