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...every pound authorities grab, another six sift out into the marketplace, an estimated 45 tons a year. Cocaine has become a $25 billion business, about three times as big as the recording and movie industries put together. (The manufacture of cocaine paraphernalia is a small industry in itself: users spend millions of dollars a year on coke spoons, free-base pipes and extraction kits, digital gram scales and the like.) Selling coke is, in the words of one U.S. drug official, "the most lucrative of all underworld ventures...
...community fears about safety. Buoyant assumptions about industrial growth, in vogue when most nuclear plants were conceived, have not held up. Smokestack industries-autos, steel, chemicals-that were expected to consume more and more electricity from the atom are waning in importance in the American economy as imports grab bigger shares of U.S. markets. Demand for electricity by what was supposed to be an ever more affluent, wasteful society has fallen off sharply. U.S. consumption of electricity declined 2% or so last year after rising at an average rate of 5% during the 1970s. Consumption fell 4% during the first...
...Huskies got their leadoff man aboard again in the third, and Larson once more got some help from his outfield. UConn shortstop Ed McMillan rode the first Larson offering 400 feet into center field, but Bruce Weller came through with a one-handed grab to prevent an extra-base...
...perhaps my very own . . . Calves are like men, some have sense-and some have not. Evidently, he has not as he can never find his meals unless someone is kind enough to assist him. Even then he's ungrateful, as behold what he did to me. I only grabbed his tail and made a wild grab for his ear in order to guide him around properly when he stuck his head between my legs, backed me into the center of the lot, and when I went to get off threw me over his head with a buck...
...Harvard from making its second straight appearance in the ECAC semis. The Engineers had dropped a 5-1 decision at Bright the previous evening; with their season on the line, they didn't give up easily. On Friday the Crimson cruised to victory, but on Saturday it couldn't grab the lead until just past the game's midway point...