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In desperation, the Mokhtaris moved to Tehran 30 years ago. They have done better than most. Until four years ago, twelve members of the family lived in a one-room shack at the bottom of an abandoned ravine, surrounded by scrap, refuse and old tires. They struggled and sacrificed their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Grateful Family | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

More than 150 New England industrial firms have already gone over to wood power. The Burlington, Vt., municipal electric department is one of the converts. The changeover, which involved refitting one of the plant's three coal-fired boilers, was made 18 months ago at a cost of only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Glowing Future for Forest Power | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Kucinich's symbol is the city's 64-year-old Municipal Light Plant (Muny Light), which provides low-cost electricity to thousands of Cleveland users. Although the plant is plagued with maintenance problems and must now buy its power from the area's commercial power company, Cleveland Electric Illuminating (CEI...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Cleveland: | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

So conventions don't pollute or put any burden on municipal services? The garbage people and sewer workers could submit evidence to the contrary. Enlightened promoters should concede that 26 million conventioneers leave other things than money in the host city.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1979 | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

Public employees. Pacts covering 400,000 members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees must be concluded by April or May in order to give politicians time to work the figures into budgets, even though most contracts do not expire until June 30. This moderate union might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 1979's Bargaining Calendar | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

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