Word: nationalizes
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...Dade County for more than 800 people a day, but he expects that the high cost of the transbuses (as much as $50,000 more than a regular bus) will halt the expansion of the special van service. Still, the transbuses will soon be introduced in one of the nation's largest public transportation systems, the Southern California Rapid Transit District in Los Angeles...
Under a relentless assault from cut-rate foreign competitors, the nation's steel industry has suffered through a nightmarish year. Steel imports have increased about 50% just since 1975 and in some months this year have captured 20% of the U.S. market. Combined with lackluster domestic demand, that foreign invasion has caused shutdowns of old mills, forcing more than 60,000 workers out of jobs in the past year. Steel executives, union men and a new caucus of Congressmen from steel-producing areas have brought heavy pressure on the Carter Administration to do something. The President's first...
Tuscaloosa Sand, "geopressured" zones could raise nation's supply...
...well's importance goes far beyond that. Its discovery indicates that a major new gas-exploration effort in the Tuscaloosa Sand geological formation of southern Louisiana is hitting pay zones. That promises new production not only for Louisiana but for an energy-hungry nation that counts natural gas as both its cleanest-burning and most critically scarce fuel. Last week the Louisiana Office of Conservation estimated that gas reserves in the Tuscaloosa Sand may reach 3 trillion cu. ft. That would be equal to 86% of last year's production in Louisiana, which leads the nation...
MIDWESTERN GIANT seeks experienced administrator to run nation's third largest university, with some 48,000 students, 3,405 faculty and $264 million budget. Offerings run from strong agricultural department to innovative performing arts programs. Current President Clifton Wharton, first black to head large, mostly white U.S. university, leaving at year's end to take over bigger (340,000 students) State University of New York; successor must build up small ($ 12 million) endowment, raise money to establish new law and dentistry schools and attract more renowned senior faculty. Political acumen helpful in dealing with elected trustees. Salary negotiable...