Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action on this proposal before 1979. Legislation to place the licensing process in the hands of fewer agencies (approvals may now be required from as many as 40) also should be introduced. This could reduce the time for completing a power plant to six years and thus help make construction costs lower and more predictable...
Nuclear power did much to help the U.S. get through the storms and coal strike that crippled fossil-fuel plants last winter, providing much of the electricity for hard-hit New England and the battered Midwest. Similarly, nuclear power could save the country from the specter of industrial shutdowns and power blackouts as the oil runs out. Even conservative estimates are that the U.S. will need 390 nukes to provide at least 27% of its electric power by 2000. The time to start building these plants is now. Otherwise, they will not be ready when the nation really needs them...
...Haya had built. Using radioactive-carbon dating processes on the charcoal, they found that these furnaces were between 1,500 and 2,000 years old, which proved that the sophisticated steelmaking techniques demonstrated by the contemporary Haya were indeed practiced by their ancestors. This discovery, the scientists conclude, "will help to change scholarly and popular ideas that technological sophistication developed in Europe but not in Africa...
...that, however, one cannot help comparing the jumpy life of this film to the becalmed chill of that other recent assault on the sterility of bourgeois life, Woody Allen's Interiors. The contrast is all in favor of Altman. The people in A Wedding are capable of bursting their schematic bounds, of bouncing into wayward life and, in an odd way, undercutting the director's underlying message of disapproval. In the end, Altman the observant artist manages to subvert Altman the highly conventional social critic. -Richard Schickel
...cost to weigh more heavily on residential users rather than on industry, raised incremental price levels for old gas which is already flowing, and put stringent limits on the amount of gas which can be allocated to home owners in an emergency shortage. none of these measures will help Americans to stop using oil or save energy; all of them were apparently inserted to placate feisty legislators from producing states, and hold together a fragile House-Senate compromise on the bill...