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...informed and includes promoting intelligent discussion and action as well. This week's Environment story on the energy crisis, for example, reflects some of the thinking culled from a special conference sponsored by TIME and our sister publications, FORTUNE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. The three-day meeting, held in Nassau last month, brought together political, business and environmental leaders. They were experts with diverse points of view, but they were motivated by a common goal beyond any special interest: to seek solutions to the world's energy crisis...
Among those who came to Nassau for the meeting were such disparate spokesmen as Thomas Kimball of the National Wildlife Federation, George Shultz, Secretary of the Treasury, Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Chairman of the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, and the top executives of leading U.S. energy companies. Said Kimball: "This is about the best way to get people together for a meaningful dialogue. I think the experience was valuable not only for the participants but for the country as well...
Gatherings like the Nassau conference are a longstanding tradition with TIME. For almost two decades we have brought together some of the world's government, business and academic leaders on matters of public interest and concern. As far back as 1956 TIME arranged a conference on housing that proved so helpful to representatives of all the areas involved that it has become an annual event. Similarly, there have been meetings of experts under TIME'S auspices on the future of air transport, overseas investments and the role of Congress. Four...
...three-day energy conference sponsored by Time Inc. in April at Lyford Cay in Nassau (for list of participants see box page 48), top executives of U.S. energy companies offered suggestions for alleviating the shortages. Their strategy through 1985 would be to increase the domestic output of oil and natural gas, and to build new energy facilities (power plants, refineries, pipelines). But the bill for this expansion, according to experts at the conference, would be at least $500 billion, too high for industry to pay without fed eral help. The energy companies want the Government to allow the market place...
UConn lost to Princeton by five seconds and Williams was nine seconds behind the Nassau women...