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...about our solar future. We aren't going to get there without electricity for mining, processing and manufacturing the material for solar equipment. And we aren't going to have enough electricity without nuclear power. And we aren't going to have nuclear power if we persist in unrealistic expectations from conservation and solar power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1980 | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...Coeur d'Alene district in the rugged northern panhandle of Idaho, which is the richest silver region on earth, has held steady at about 18.5 million oz. annually over the past five years, but is expected to rise to 20 million oz. during 1980. Still, shortages will persist, and that suggests rising prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gold and Silver Go Bonkers | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...Latin American bishops that while the church must preach social justice, it can never accommodate theologies that are inspired as much by Marx as by Jesus. In his homeland of Poland, during the first visit by a Pope to a Communist-ruled land, he encouraged East bloc Christians to persist in their struggle for religious liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Others Who Stood in the Spotlight | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

While Carter's show of White House muscle was impressive, some problems persist. The President is having difficulty filling top jobs in his Administration, in part because potential nominees are reluctant to commit themselves to a boss who may have only a bit more than a year in power. According to Washington rumor, such top businessmen as Henry Ford II, General Electric's Reginald Jones and Xerox's Peter McColough have turned down the post of Secretary of Commerce. Carter last week approved California Federal Judge Charles B. Renfrew as Deputy Attorney General. But Renfrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Incumbency Is the Best Policy | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Forms of anti-Catholicism undoubtedly persist. The deeper conflict, however, is not between the Catholic Church and other religions, or between Catholics and people of other faiths. It is between religion and humanism, between the idea of a natural moral law and moral relativism. "All of Western law," civilization which was assumes based that on the man is a postulate of creature a of God, natural argues moral Edward Hanify, a Catholic and a Boston lawyer. "The currently ascendant philosophy of humanism has an entirely different view of man: he is an autonomous being, with no external controls. Because Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Rise and Fall of Anti-Catholicism | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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