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...brewers have been selling beer at a loss in selected markets, only to find that many Germans regard inexpensive beer as, well, cheap. Despite the interest in fitness, the light Diät beers some brewers have introduced have flopped. Germans do not like their beer to be as robust as they used to; brands with alcohol content close to 6% are fading, and the typical beer is now 4.2% alcohol; but even those brews are more potent than the lighter U.S. beers, which are generally 3.6% alcohol...
...have cause to worry. Many of our nuclear power plants were designed and constructed by corporate decision makers who knew they didn't have to give full weight to risks of damage in excess of $500 million. Many nuclear power plant licenses were approved at hearings which lacked robust and vigorous inquiry...
...place where a benign and popular government reigns over a modest society that is notably free of corruption, has never fought a war with its neighbors, never held a political prisoner, and does not bother to arm its police. Its currency is stable and its economy remarkably robust. It has a multiparty parliamentary system and is preparing to hold its fourth general election since it attained independence from Britain in 1966. The country is Botswana, and its state of health is all the more remarkable for the fact that it is encircled by the major states of conflict...
...robust Midwesterner of sturdy Nordic stock, the tall, silver-haired Carlson, 64, keeps both his personal life and his business private, and he is barely known outside his native Minnesota. He has collected a string of 101 companies in ten groups without ever having sold a share of stock to the public, along the way amassing a fortune estimated at $100 million. Because his companies are private, they are not required to report sales or profits figures. But he has allowed TIME Correspondent Patricia Delaney a closer look at the far-flung activities of the Carlson Companies...
...speeding up or slowing down. Largely because inflation-pinched consumers are reducing some spending, the output of goods and services grew at a paltry 0.7% annual rate in this year's first quarter, way down from almost 7% in last year's final quarter. Yet a batch of fairly robust statistics indicates that there was a rebound in March, and that is causing a significant split in the Carter Administration over what policy to pursue...