Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most commercial customers had three-month stockpiles of coal, which they thought would be ample. Now the utilities and the industries that are dependent on coal are running low in Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee and Pennsylvania. Other states that face imminent shortages are Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Michigan. These states require at least 60,000 megawatts of power constantly, and to get it, they burn 3 million tons of coal each week. Even if the strike were to end immediately, it would take 30 days to ratify the agreement and then restore the mines to working order. Yet the strike...
...figure our income taxes and play games with us," says Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who directed the project. "The computer age has arrived." Indeed, computers are now as much a part of TIME as typewriters. Jaroff, who holds degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics from the University of Michigan, edited the stories on a video display terminal, part of our elaborate copy processing system. In 1967, TIME was one of the first magazines to set copy with a computer. Today our improved system also handles the other Time Inc. publications (FORTUNE, MONEY, PEOPLE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED), cutting processing time...
Even though the Administration is now optimistic about ratification (and polls show a majority of the public in favor), the two amendments will not quell significant opposition. Republican Moderate Robert Griffin of Michigan, who has taken on the job of managing the opposition, denounced the treaties last week as "pregnant with the seeds of acrimony and strife ... fatally flawed and riddled with ambiguity." Senator John Stennis of Mississippi warned that the transfer would cost more than $1 billion. Reagan joined in with a nationwide TV address in which he claimed that the treaties might result in the loss...
...nationwide flu picture is confused by the persistence of some A/Victoria virus left over from last winter's outbreaks and the current prevalence of A/Texas. Nonetheless, isolation of Russian flu virus has been confirmed not only at the three service academies but also in Wyoming, Colorado, Michigan and Texas, and unconfirmed reports of outbreaks are trick ling in from most of the other states...
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