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...from keeping nuclear plants in operation and building new ones, the nation cannot let the debate end there. Three Mile Island vividly illustrated the dangers of reliance on nuclear power. Disaster was avoided, but probably not by much. Experts who never considered the possibility that a hydrogen bubble would hinder attempts to shut down a balking reactor can no longer contend that the chances of serious accident are so tiny as to be totally discounted. The radiation released was well below the Government's standards for safety, but cancer rates among people exposed to fallout from the atomic-bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Looking Anew At The Nuclear Future | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Deficit spending is believed to hinder investment directly in two ways--one, by creating through inflation an atmosphere of uncertainty and declining prospects that frightens business; and two, by "crowding out" private investors from capital markets with the volume of government bonds necessary to finance the national debt. Neither holds...

Author: By Kerry Konrad, | Title: The Browning of America | 4/3/1979 | See Source »

...become necessary to remind all members of the Assembly of the responsiblities which they have undertaken as representatives. They have been entrusted for one year with the development of an enormous potential that can only be realized through an informed exchange of opinions. No one has the right to hinder the expression of those opinions, not the administration, not the CDU, not the House Committees. Only the students can collectively deny the representativeness of the organization which they so overwhelmingly supported last spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Assembly Unity | 3/17/1979 | See Source »

Except that not a single coffee bean existed. Companies were set up in the Caribbean and an aging freighter of Panamanian registry was bought for $700,000. The culprits proceeded to pay off anybody who might hinder the swindle. The Justice Department estimates that hundreds of thousands of dollars were paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Cuban Coffee Caper | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...then Chiang Ching-kuo will think he has nothing to fear, and he will thrust his tail up 10,000 meters high in the sky. And so we do hope that following normalization the U.S., while maintaining a people-to-people relationship with Taiwan, will take care not to hinder negotiations between China and Taiwan for peaceful reunification. This particular question may be discussed many times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with Teng Hsiao-p'ing | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

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