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...more abundant than anyone thought a decade ago, natural gas is the cleanest hydrocarbon fuel available. But in many cases, utilities that wish to switch from coal-fired power generation to gas-fired must go through a lengthy process to obtain a federal permit. Such regulations, which inhibit the increased use of natural gas, should be eased...
...sense, psychic salvation is just an elevator ride away. In the lobby of the Time & Life Building, I can obtain an impressive desktop planner offered by our sister publication FORTUNE magazine. But I just could not imagine treating the appointment book's appendices, filled with FORTUNE 500 listings, as a personal breviary. Let others run with the bulls and the bears; the symbol of my investment strategy has always been the Cowardly Lion. To me, a term like "covering a short position" refers to St. Louis Cardinal infielder Ozzie Smith...
...approved evacuation plan. As community opposition has grown, the facility has been the subject of legal and political wrangling. Last week a federal jury found LILCO and its former president, Wilfred Uhl, guilty of lying to state officials about Shoreham's progress in 1978 and 1984 in order to obtain rate increases to help finance the project. Uhl and LILCO were fined $22.8 million...
...telephone in the prison chaplain's office. Identifying himself as a bail bondsman, White called the sheriff's document-control center and got an accused murderer's case number and date of arrest. Then he phoned the district attorney's records bureau, identifying himself as a deputy D.A. to obtain names of witnesses and the prosecutors handling the case. He rang up the coroner's office -- this time masquerading as a cop -- and was provided with details of the murder. In short order White had pieced together enough information to provide lawmen with a credible "confession" from a prisoner...
...which one student trying to make it overseas called "basically nonexistent...no help at all," there are very few available resources to help with this decision. Even if undergraduates locate suitable programs, they still have to get an OCS-approved form outlining their proposal a few months in advance, "obtain various signatures indicating academic and administrative approval"--as the OCS Guide to Study Abroad so helpfully explains--and then apply for credit, which is hard to obtain...