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Because of Columbia's delays, some of the U.S. shuttle's would-be users have switched to Ariane, including several leading American firms, General Telephone and Electronics, Southern Pacific Communications and Western Union. One persuasive factor: European banks are making low-cost loans available to those who want to book Ariane flights. Says NASA Chief James Beggs: "While the United States still leads in space technology, the Europeans, the Russians, the Japanese and others are coming on fast, and they are there to stay...
...valley of the Tennessee River. By 1940 the 21 hydroelectric plants of the Tennessee Valley Authority were delivering 3.19 billion kilowatt hours of electricity at about half the average national rate and the TVA was playing a major part in the economic revival of the South. The spread of low-cost electricity was also the mission of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), which loaned money at low interest (3%) to cooperative power systems. In seven years, the REA helped increase the number of farms supplied with electricity from 750,000 to 2.125 million (11% to 35% of the total...
Missing from Reagan's recommendations on improving land-based forces is an effective low-cost ballistic missile defense of the 1000 Miniteman silos, a much easier job than defending 100 high-value MX silos. This defense against Soviet warheads can be achieved by the use of buried nuclear explosives to throw up debris that destroys incoming warheads, by the "SWARMJET" system of launching a shotgun blast of 10,000 small unguided raockets at each warhead as it approaches the target silo. Perhaps now that the deceptive basing scheme is out of the way, real effort can be applied to analyze...
While writing about entitlements and federally subsidized food, TIME should have mentioned the low-cost meals available to members of Congress in the congressional dining halls...
What has not suffered from Reaganomics is the low-cost, low-effectiveness methadone treatment centers. Seven out-patient facilities in the state dispense the synthetic, which is designed to remove gradually the user's need for heroin. "We have had a good success rate with methadone," drug officials say. Most often measured in terms of a facility's utilization rate, success comes easily for a methodone treatment program. A methodone center tends to create its own demand. "If we were a methadone service," Bill McCue, director of project Third Nail, says, "we'd have lines of people down the block...