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...this is part of a growing and quite possibly ruinous European crusade against nuclear power. The crusade is being fought by Europe's oddly mixed environmental groups, which are rapidly becoming a significant political force. Ex-Premier Olof Palme of Sweden attributed the 1976 election defeat of his Social Democratic government, in part, to public opposition to his nuclear-power program. In the first round of French municipal elections last month, ecology-minded groups gathered 10% of the vote in Paris and up to 30% in some suburbs, cutting into the totals of losing moderate candidates backed by President...
...final match of the day, Princeton's Bryan Miller carded a 76 to buoy his team to victory, as Harvard's number seven man Peter Smith incurred a ruinous triple bogey on the way to an 80. Yale finished a distant third, eight strokes off the Crimson's pace...
...prosperity. Growers in Brazil, for example, were getting $2.33 per Ib. last week for prime coffee beans, four times last year's price. Brazilian officials predict that export earnings from coffee will reach $4.3 billion this year, enough to take the sting out of the country's ruinous bill for imported...
...more customers out 90 days than I care to talk about," says Litchfield Oil Co.'s Ken Knight of Lowell, Mass. For all of New England's 2,200 fuel oil companies, unpaid accounts are running from 17% above normal for larger dealers up to a ruinous 38% for small operators. Since October, 26 dealers have been forced to go out of business because their cash flow dried up; another 175 are expected to drop out before the end of winter...
...city. These days, if a farmer saves enough to buy an apartment in the city, it becomes the daughter's dowry and attracts a young engineer, mechanic or construction worker." But for a poor parent with many daughters, it has always been an immense and even ruinous burden. Wails one unfortunate father of five girls on the island of Kalymnos: "Better we save enough money to go to Australia, where they will find a husband...