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...have not been successful." His new policy, he said, "is almost certain not to succeed if success means quick or dramatic changes. A long-term disease requires long-term treatment." But he pleaded: "It is up to us to make the improvements we can, even at the risk of partial failure, rather than to ensure failure by not trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: War on Inflation: Stage II | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...born leader, Joseph Clark, 39, as an acceptable alternative to Trudeau. Ridiculed by one Toronto paper as "Joe Who?" when he won the Tory leadership in 1976, Clark has a shrewd ability to capitalize on popular concerns. During the by-election campaign he proposed new Canadian tax laws allowing partial deductions for property taxes and mortgage interest from federal income taxes. Despite his party's traditional inability to win votes in Quebec, Clark confidently declared last week: "The Conservatives alone can form a national government. The Liberals have lost any capacity to regain ground in English Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Wipe-Out | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), in its first meeting last night, came up with a partial solution to the persistent shortage of representatives in its legislature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUS Works Out a Solution To Shortage of Representatives | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

...Hamilton Jordan, Dr. Peter Bourne, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Lance and Barry Jagoda. In: Jerry Rafshoon, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Blumenthal and Mr. and Mrs. James Earl Carter III. That is a partial list of those who did and did not make it into this year's The Green Book, Washington's suede-covered guide to the up and climbing. Getting into The Green Book requires that you not at present be divorced or separated, "unpleasantly notorious," or missing from the recommended list of entries sent over from the White House. The socially savvy staff of the manual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 16, 1978 | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

MELTDOWN AT MONTAGUE, however, does not indulge in scare tactics. The possibility of a meltdown, while admittedly slight, does exist. Many people forget the two near-disasters within the last 12 years: in 1966 the Fermi reactor near Detroit suffered a partial meltdown; in 1974 the Browns' Ferry reactor in Alabama went completely out of control when a careless maintenance worker started a fire among the cables used to dampen the reaction, knocking out both the primary and secondary safety systems. Plant engineers later said it was a miracle that they managed to regain control over the reactor before...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Your Friendly Neighborhood Nuke | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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