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...Bulgaria and Hungary. Last January the East German government acknowledged that in late 1975 a network of cables caught fire at its Greifswald complex on the Baltic Sea and nearly caused a reactor meltdown. Though a disaster was averted, the country is considering major cuts in its nuclear-energy output. In Poland's Baltic ports, dockers refuse to handle Soviet-made parts for the country's first nuclear power station, which has been under construction for a decade. It is doubtful that the project will ever be completed...
...plant's output showed that this hypothesis was unfounded. More important, the aviation industry switched from rayon cord to metallic cord. Whatever rationale the Baikal complex may once have had -- and it never offset the potential harm to the lake -- vanished. Construction nevertheless went ahead, with whole armies of officials defending their decision and saving face by insisting on the complex's importance for the defense of the country, the usual clinching argument...
...consumers to consume, and people are forced to save the money they cannot spend. At least 165 billion rubles in involuntary savings, the equivalent of six months of retail sales, lies like a deadweight on the economy. The ruble is worth so little that enterprises must barter their output and pay their workers with goods rather than money...
...futures price of crude fell below $16.50 per bbl. for the benchmark West Texas Intermediate, down more than $2 from the previous week and $5 since early March. While demand for oil usually softens during springtime, new calculations of the world's oil production have stunned commodity traders. Total output by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries exceeds 24.5 million bbl. per day, or 2 million beyond its agreed ceiling. At the same time, Saudi Arabia said it had discovered a huge new oil field...
...reviewing a play, passing judgement on the creative output of others, a critic implies that his taste and opinion are valuable tools of measure. All critics must earn that power they wield: by the time they put in, the quality of their writing, their committment to good theater, their sensitivity and discretion...