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...third blow fell when Cincinnati Gas & Electric and two partner companies announced that they were halting further nuclear construction on their long-troubled William H. Zimmer plant at Moscow, Ohio. They plan to convert the 810-MW facility, 97% finished at a cost of $1.7 billion, into a coal-burning installation. A fourth shock to the gasping industry came when a Pennsylvania public utilities commission led overextended Philadelphia Electric to halt construction for 18 months on one of its two Limerick reactors, where $3 billion has already been spent...
...food supply have surfaced recently, since far-reaching and badly needed amendments to FIFRA are now before both houses of Congress. These amendments would prohibit the application of pesticides which are still not fully tested for their threat to human health. This would bring a halt to the present EPA practice of allowing untested chemicals to be used while the studies are being carried out. In addition, the amendments would stop the granting of special "emergency use" permits for the use of pesticides which are known to be deadly--a practice which has skyrocketed during the Reagan Administration...
...senator this year, focusing on the nuclear freeze issue. And seven of the eight presidential contenders-former Florida Gov. Reubin O. Askew being the exception-have endorsed some sort of freeze. Unsuccessful 1972 Democratic nominee George S. McGovern has gone so far as to call for a unilateral halt to nuclear arms production and deployment...
Seventy firefighters battle for over three hours to halt the blaze, which was started by a faulty oil heating system in the basement, Dudley said...
...Japan, Western Europe nonetheless can expect average growth of 2.5% this year. At the same time, the inflation rate will continue falling, from last year's 7.5% to 6.8% in 1984. Unemployment is not expected to decrease, but the rise in the number of jobless will halt and remain at this year's level of 10.5%. Said Samuel Brittan, assistant editor of London's Financial Times: "Europe clearly is a tortoise when com pared with the U.S. and Japan, but it is not a tortoise in relation to its own recent performance...