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...energy requirements by 1985, the French government's nuclear power program is mighty ambitious-much too much so, many Frenchmen complain. Socialist Party Chief François Mitterrand, who clearly plans to make the atom an issue in next March's elections, charges that the policy of headlong nuclear expansion was reckless, "launched like a railroad engine at 400 kilometers an hour." In August, some 30,000 protesters tried to slow the train down by staging a noisy demonstration at Super Phenix, the big French plutonium breeder reactor east of Lyon. Now there is concern about...
...Nations resolutions signed but unhonored. Despite the euphoric glow last week in Cairo and Jerusalem, no one who has long watched the region's affairs was likely to announce: "Peace is at hand." Anwar Sadat had headily mixed statesmanship and showmanship, but that is a volatile combination. The very headlong momentum that Sadat had forced raised the question of whether he was practicing a durable diplomacy...
...create machines that would link the fate of each part of the country to that of the whole--the original railroad, the telegraph, the telephone and all their updated versions. Edison, certainly, was driven by a cause larger than money. He was an experimenter of prodigious energy, diving headlong into every problem that presented itself. He worked so hard at inventing that he rarely had time to spend the money he made, except on lab equipment or perhaps a new house. For Edison, money was simply a sign that his inventions were working. He once told a young colleague, "Whatever...
...what he has dug up. Clark continually and annoyingly relies on quotes to supply the book's only colorful observations about Edison's personality and his image. It is Edison's words, not Clark's, that provide the reader with a sense of the danger of the inventor's headlong rush to "make it go." Clark quotes Edison when he decided to relocate his lab in New Jersey saying, "See that valley? Well, I'm going to make it more beautiful. I'm going to dot it with factories...
...prices began their dizzy upward spiral and the companies marked up the selling price of imported oil that had been brought into inventory before the prices rose. As much as $5 billion in windfall profits resulted. This happened at a time when the rest of the economy was plunging headlong into the worst economic downturn since the 1930s, and such cynical profit taking gave the oil companies a black eye. Few can forget how, in their annual reports for 1974, the oil companies showed hefty increases in their profits over the preceding year: Exxon up 28.6%, Gulf up 33%, Mobil...