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...some of the things this government has done are such that their own people have lost confidence in them. So whenever there is an election, we shall win, and I hope with a good majority. Inflation, a drop in the real standard of living, no increase in our manufacturing output in three years, a taxation system so heavy that many ordinary people say there's no incentive to work-those sources of resentment [will not] disappear...
Prices and imports rise; output and earnings sink...
...early as 1979, North American output of electricity will fall short of demand, starting in the Southeast, then in other areas, until by 1986 power shortages will become almost nationwide and stretch into Canada. That is the forecast of the National Electric Reliability Council, an organization composed of virtually all U.S. and many Canadian power companies. William McCollam Jr., chairman of the NERC, bluntly summarizes: "You're going to have curtailments, brownouts, blackouts...
...meaning approval of higher rates) endangers their ability to raise the $250 billion to $300 billion of new construction capital required in the next ten years. Also, the utilities foresee a fuel shortage. Meeting the nation's power needs, says the NERC, would require more than doubling coal output, to 1.3 billion tons by 1986. The utilities demand that the Government move faster in leasing federally owned Western land to coal-mining companies...
Like their big brothers in business and government, microcomputers have a central processing unit to do the thinking, an input-output device (typically an electric typewriter connected to a video display screen) for giving instructions and receiving answers, and a memory for storing information. A microcomputer can easily perform such sedentary chores as keeping track of an investment portfolio, maintaining an up-to-date Christmas card list, collating menus or entertaining the kids with a vast Olympiad of electronic games, from TV tennis to Star Trek (destroy the Klingons before they capture the starship Enterprise). Other tasks-reporting on water...