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However understandable such environmental crusades may be, and however remiss the utilities may seem in retrospect, the battles hamper power production at the very time of the growing shortage. Under the Clean Air Act of 1970, the utilities will have to meet tough air-quality standards by 1975, and the cost of those standards will help to triple the price of electricity by 1990. Nonetheless, the Federal Power Commission predicts that the utilities must build about 300 new power plants generating 910 million kw. to meet the anticipated needs of 1990. The expected cost: $500 billion...
...benefit of well-off suburbs cannot be serious." The suburbs, on the other hand, had a complaint of their own about the proposed limit on their ability to get their children the best that money can buy. Said Superintendent Christopher Warrell, whose district includes Sea Cliff: "This would hamper districts that attach more importance to education." Another suburban superintendent went further: "If a limit is put on us, I'll probably go shoot myself...
...fighting, as the disastrous results of the invasion of Laos showed last February. Nixon must have U.S. troops to do the job for them. And the only way he can use U.S. troops without a politically damaging increase in casualties is extensive bombing of North Vietnam to hamper the flow of supplies to troops in and around South Vietnam...
Both teams have no real injuries to hamper their attacks today and if the Bruins' scoring punch continues to improve as it did during the last two games. Brown could be at its peak...
...factor in today's game will be Harvard's injuries. Forwards Charlie Thomas and Felix Adedeji still haven't recovered from last week's injuries. Linkmen. Nourie Harrower and Emanuel Ekama are doubtful starters, and this loss of strength at midfield may severely hamper the effectiveness of Harvard's 4-2-4 formation...