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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...
...chains still have room to grow, and 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...
...Pizza Hut, a Baskin-Robbins has sprouted, it is still possible on Maui to rediscover the idyllic Hawaii of swaying palms and hips that Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain and Jack London described so affectionately. More than 75% of the island is gloriously uninhabited and is likely to remain so. Only 2,650 acres are zoned for resort use, while 242,408 acres are reserved for cropland. Sugar cane is Maui's premier crop, yielding some 200,000 tons of sugar a year, the world's highest per-acre yield; the third biggest crop is pineapple. The second...
Unfortunately, once he was persuaded to broadcast over radio, Kahn was also persuaded to give the Met to Paley's archrival, the older, larger, and more prestigious NBC. CBS was to remain the underdog for nearly two more decades, until, in the late '40s, CBS began the "Paley raids," luring away NBC's biggest stars, including Jack Benny and Amos 'n' Andy...
Most Rhodesian-based correspondents have either been forbidden by their editors to carry guns, or would be if the home office found out they were doing so. Some reporters prefer to remain unarmed. "If you're captured, having a gun is a death warrant," says the Los Angeles Times's Jack Foisie. But the armed correspondents maintain that such ethical hairsplitting is irrelevant to their workaday peril. Says one: "Anyone who can sit in an editorial chair and demand that reporters ride around the Rhodesian countryside unarmed should come here and try it for himself...