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Emerine says that the University has been conscious of the environment while planning new telescope sites. "We thought we were environmentally responsible to not inflict an observatory on an untouched mountain--Chiricahua Peak in Southeastern Arizona. Therefore, Mt. Graham is the choice...
...their endless struggle to please and appease special interests and large voter blocs, most of the 535 members of Congress have succeeded mainly in diminishing themselves. Their fundamental obligation to order the nation's finances has given way to the politician's primal instinct: inflict no pain; ruffle no feathers; get re-elected...
...idea arose of placing our missile units in Cuba. Only a narrow circle of people knew about the plan. We concluded that we could send 42 missiles, each with a warhead of one megaton. We picked targets in the U.S. to inflict the maximum damage. We saw that our weapons could inspire terror. The two nuclear weapons the U.S. used against Japan at the end of the war were toys by comparison...
...deep slump could inflict heavy damage on overleveraged companies and troubled banks whose books are already filled with junk bonds and sour real estate loans. According to Veribanc, a Massachusetts-based firm that rates banks and S&Ls, bad loans at U.S. banks rose a sharp 7.5%, to $48.6 billion, in the first quarter of 1990. Overall, nearly 1,400 banks, or about 11% of the U.S. total, lost money in the first quarter. That represented an alarming jump of nearly 20% over the same period a year...
...broad economic downturn could inflict heavy damage on both banks and S&Ls. The threat of a such a slump was aggravated last week, when oil prices rose more than 10% in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Ironically, rising crude prices would reinvigorate the economies of oil-patch states where thrifts have been hit hardest, but the effect would probably be too little, too late to reduce the cost of the bailout by much...