Word: outputs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moves will take a long time to increase the output of nuclear power, even if they succeed. Says one utility spokesman: "Even with licensing reform, new [plant] orders won't begin again until 1980 at the earliest." Meanwhile, public sentiment against nuclear power seems stronger than ever. A Harris survey of New York State residents released this month shows that, when asked whether they would be willing to have a nuclear plant sited in their area, more than half of those polled answered no. Only a quarter of the 1,000 respondents approved. And voters in California...
Economist Edward Denison of the liberal-oriented Brookings Institution calculates that Government regulations covering everything from shipping to the environment lowered output per man-hour in private industry by 1.8% between 1967 and 1975. One COWPS member estimates that regulation adds from .5% to 1% to inflation, and that new regulations this year will raise business costs by $5 billion...
...ruminating on how much easier it would be to negotiate with the Soviet Union if it were not ruled by Communists. The fact is that the U.S. is now living in a world of expensive fuel, and doing nothing effective either to conserve energy or to increase domestic energy output. To foreigners, who are saving energy through higher gasoline prices and self-imposed limitations on oil imports, the U.S. seems determined to consume as much foreign oil as its wasteful habits dictate, whatever the effects on the dollar or its own economy...
...vast legion of artists, students and collectors. In the U.S. there are now 5,000 professionals working in glass and, according to Patrick White, president of the St. Louis-based Stained Glass Association of America, at least 100,000 hobbyists; ten years ago there were fewer than 100. The output of artists and amateurs is becoming highly visible in offices and stores, schools, courthouses, chapels, restaurants, apartment buildings and homes. The pieces may be room dividers, skylights or side lights, bathtub screens, doors, windows or-most significantly-hanging or freestanding "autonomous" works that can be displayed like paintings or sculptures...
Chicago's Giannini & Hilgart, the Midwest's oldest stained-glass studio (founded in 1868), struggled along for years on sparse church commissions until the boom hit in 1973; its business then started tripling annually, to $170,000 in 1977, and 90% of its output now goes to homes and businesses. Dealers specializing in supplies for the craft have also been transported on a beam of dancing light (green). Hollander Glass company in Long Beach, Calif., which started in 1956 as a small studio specializing in windows for churches and residences, is now solely in the business of selling...