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Finally, at an altitude of 8,200 ft., the track breaks through onto a rolling plateau of sagebrush, juniper and pine. It is here, on this remote plateau, southwest of Rifle, Colo., that Caterpillars of the Colony Development Operation have already cut 300 yds. into a mountain of shale. Near by, in another canyon, Union Oil engineers monitor a conveyor belt delivering a stream of shale into a giant funnel. Some 40 miles south, at Logan's Wash, Occidental Petroleum miners have cut two mine faces into the sides of a shale mountain. Farther northwest lies another tract...
...former chief economist for IBM, foresees a 1980 inflation rate of 9.5%, or double the level of only three years ago. Says he: "Inflation will continue as long ahead as we can see." Okun maintains that the latest surge of inflation has placed the economy on a higher price plateau, where it will stay for years to come. Even after the recession is over, he predicts, prices will be increasing by 8% annually...
...turnover is affected by employees morale, too, and morale continually flows and ebbs, Cantor says. "It's not as if you'd go along with a stable temperature of 98.6 and then hit a fever plateau. Morale is always changing," he says. A recessed economy or student demonstrations such as those in the late '60s could trigger depression among employees, he adds...
...ninth grade, Bobby Crihfield, recalls that Gary was "very quiet, a typical poor student who is passed along from grade to grade." Unaware of Gary's musical ability or his skill in carpentry and woodcarving, Crihfield says he has seen many such students who "reach a plateau once they get to the seventh grade, and they just can't learn any more. I think it's just unfair to try to make them graduate from high school...
Western Australia's Nullarbor (meaning no trees) Plain is an arid, limestone plateau that lies east of the old gold-rush towns of Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie, southeast of Comet Vale and northeast of Grass Patch. It is a barren, almost unpopulated land of sand and saltbush. Out of the blackness of the southwestern sky one night last week, the fringe of this isolated region was visited by a fiery symbol of the Western world's most advanced technology: the final, fatal fall of Skylab...