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...generated by existing facilities is now being weighed, and found wanting, in the light of other concerns. One long-running dispute concerns the Western Area Power Administration's operations at the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona, just above the Grand Canyon. The agency releases huge amounts of water through giant turbines to meet peak power demands in places as far away as Phoenix. These dramatic surges of water create artificial "tides" that, environmentalists complain, erode the sandy shoals along the river's banks and damage breeding grounds for fish and waterfowl...
NATIVE AMERICANS. "The Indians are the giant 'What if?' on the river," says Boulder lawyer John Musick, who specializes in water issues. "They have time and the law on their side. They have a solid case, and they're dead serious. It's like a huge bill finally coming due." Because of treaties and agreements between their tribes and the Federal Government, Native Americans living on reservations along the Colorado River have, in many instances, claims on water that date back to the mid-1800s. Thanks to the first-in-time concept, they are often the senior owners of river...
...entry met a shocking rebuff. It is a lump-in-the-throat spot about Mike Sewell, a youth born with Down's syndrome, who found a job and happiness at McDonald's. The crowd in the giant auditorium at Cannes greeted it with raucous boos and whistles. "This is the most vicious, cynical, jaded audience in the world," said Marcio Moreira, creative director of McCann-Erickson Worldwide. "They don't like to have their emotions manipulated...
Another problem that drove IBM and Apple into each other's arms is their growing friction with some powerful partners, most notably Microsoft, the suburban Seattle software giant run by wunderkind billionaire William Gates III. Microsoft was the creator of MS-DOS, the software that runs the IBM PC, but the two companies have had a falling out over the next generation, called OS/2, which runs IBM's line of PS/2 computers. Microsoft developed OS/2 as well, but IBM believes the software company has undermined sales of that software by pushing a highly successful program called Windows 3.0, which enables...
Kessler always has a plan, and targeting a food-manufacturing giant such as Procter & Gamble was certainly part of one. Says Washington attorney and longtime friend Stuart Pape: "Going after large companies and being tough have been part of a well-considered strategy to increase the credibility and morale of the agency...