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...President by the beginning of 1985, and by law he must select one of those by early 1987. Government geologists have narrowed their choices to nine locations in six states: Washington, Nevada, Utah, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Waste-producing nuclear power companies, which pay a levy of 1 mill per kilowatt-hour of generated electricity, contribute some $40 million a month to support the program...
...movies that just don't happen in what we call real life. Some films afford their audiences a fantastic escape from daily existence, others, by pretending to be plausible, simply embarrass James Foley's Reckless is the embarrassing sort. Its portrayal of two teenagers trying to escape an American mill town--a virtual rewrite of John Sayles's 1982 Baby. It's You--is annoying rather than inspiring...
...Steel Chairman David M. Roderick called the company's action a "facility rationalization." In fact, its action was a meticulous paring of U.S. Steel's capacity to make, forge and finish steel. Mills, foundries and blast furnaces in such famed Big Steel locations as Gary, Ind., Fairless and Homestead, Pa., and the South Works in Chicago will be shut down. Plans for a rail mill in Chicago were dropped, despite union work-rule concessions and tax breaks from the Illinois state government. Mining and chemical operations will be pruned, along with fabricating facilities in some eastern states...
Last week's surgery was by far the most drastic by a single steel company in an industry battered mercilessly during the past decade by rapidly changing economic forces. Steel has been the hardest hit of America's once proud smokestack industries, and mill business has picked up only slightly with the economic recovery...
...money and jobs are manna to many Indians. Cherokees of North Carolina have cleared $500,000 in profits from the 65,000 players who have come since 1982 to their parlor in a converted textile mill. In Florida, where the Seminoles began bingo in 1979, the 1,800-member tribe this year raked in $4.2 million from three joints. "We used to make trinkets," says Tribal Chairman James Billie, a former professional alligator wrestler, "but we didn't really have the marketing skills to make a go of that...