Word: interest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forced to take more specific stands on issues about which he so far has been vague. Says New York Democrat Howard Samuels, a Carter supporter: "So far, Kennedy has been getting a free ride. He is carrying on his shoulders the uncompleted agendas of a collection of specific interest groups?blacks, the young, the poor, the working class. He can't satisfy them...
...official. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who has spent months in public doubting and questioning, is now backing the SALT II treaty. To reporters crowded into a Senate conference room last week, the powerful West Virginia Democrat declared that the strategic arms pact with Moscow "is in our national interest" and could "help diminish the potential for nuclear destruction." Though widely anticipated, this clear-cut endorsement gave SALT II a badly needed boost. Without Byrd's active support, the treaty would have little chance of winning the two-thirds vote required for Senate approval. To be sure, passage still...
...delays run up the cost of building a reactor, as does the rocketing rise in interest rates on the money that utilities must borrow to build plants. One example: the estimated cost of Long Island Lighting Co.'s Shoreham, N.Y., plant has quintupled from $300 million to $1.5 bil lion during the ten years it has been under construction. Nuclear plants now operating produce electricity more cheaply than coal-fired power stations (1.50 per kw-h for nuclear in 1978, vs. 2.30 for coal), but the cost of finishing those now under construction will be so enormous that there...
...variety of HEW officials and women's college presidents, including Horner. Following an opening address from Harris, the group discussed a variety of policy and program options in women's higher education. "Women's colleges have never had that kind of opportunity," Sharp says. "Harris has a very special interest in women's colleges," HEW liaison Karnovsky adds. education will only be the property of HEW for another six months," Karnovsky said she hopes that the links already established will transfer to newly-created Department of Education. While women have been given no specific department in the new agency, most...
John S. Bruce '79-4 described Brown as "one of the only pre-meds I've ever known who had the sensitivity to recognize the social implications of what he was doing. He was really dedicated to his career objective and yet able to separate himself from it. His interest was in people...