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...Billy Carter cook the books of the family warehouse? ou know what the problem is? Yankees can't keep up with a fast-talking Georgia...
Unemployment is not a new problem for France (see chart), but it has become a burning political issue. The spark was Barre's announcement last December that 21,000 workers in the government controlled steel industry would be laid off over the next two years. The news provoked fury in the two regions most affected: the north, around Lille, and Lorraine. Strikes and demonstrations have become regular occurrences, punctuated by occasional outbursts of violence. Highways have been blocked, and government officials have been locked up in their offices by angry steel workers. In the ugliest incident so far, seven...
Technology is not, however, as advanced in overcoming another obstacle to the increased use of nuclear power: the issue of waste disposal. Government and industry spokesmen have long maintained that safeguarding nuclear wastes, which may remain radioactive for millenniums, was a straightforward and easily solved engineering problem. A report to President Carter released last week by a task force representing 14 agencies asserts that the matter is more complex. Current knowledge is adequate only for choosing potential dumping sites for further examination, the group said, not for certifying them as safe. Contending that it is unnecessary for the Energy Department...
...pipeline project would have sharply reduced the problems, but California's superardent environmental officials yelped that it would befoul Long Beach harbor with oil spills and seriously worsen the local smog problem, because merely unloading the oil would release hydrocarbon fumes into the atmosphere. Among other requirements. Sohio had to agree to achieve a net reduction in air pollution by paying $78 million to install antipollution gear at a Long Beach utility plant...
...their earnings, though slowing somewhat, will probably remain strong by any standards. But there is a growing consensus in and out of the industry that the old days of runaway expansion are over and a tough period of scrambling for new customers and healthy returns lies ahead. A basic problem has been the rising cost of food, especially meat; beef prices jumped 30% last year, and some experts say they could increase by 50% this year. The chains have thus been forced to charge more; McDonald's raised its prices last year by about 14%. But higher costs...