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...York's blackout also focused attention on the intensely debated question of whether U.S. utilities have enough power-generating capacity. As oil and gas become scarcer and costlier, electricity will become an increasingly important energy source (it now accounts for 29% of U.S. energy). Many utility executives and their equipment suppliers argue that the U.S. will have to build many more coal-fired and nuclear power plants. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission reports that 84 nuclear plants will be completed in the next decade; the Federal Power Commission says that if the NRC'S estimate is correct...
Similar growth-limiting measures have been adopted by other communities, including Boca Raton, Fla., and Ramapo, N. Y., as well as a handful of other California towns. The motive may be healthy-to conserve resources, including simple living and breathing space, that are becoming scarcer all the time. In a country where migration remains a major avenue of social change, it still seems disturbing to throw up barriers against growth and, by extension, the freedom of people to move and change their lives. In several cases the courts have tried to defend this freedom while also approving rationally regulated, nondiscriminatory...
Condor is having some impact: drugs are scarcer on U.S. streets, but how long-lasting that will be is still difficult to determine. U.S. narcotics agents are impressed by the aggressive Mexican efforts, but they have also learned in Nepal, Turkey and Southeast Asia that peasants who have finally found a lucrative cash crop can be wily and aggressive. In Mexico the destruction of planted fields and the arrests of several overlords, including Jorge Favela-a local godfather who has been sought in half a dozen other countries for drug trading-have led to fierce internecine battles for control...
...getting jobs are, at the best, a drain on the Alaskan economy. But the out-of-staters who can't find work often resort to crime, which has skyrocketed since construction began in '73, in order to afford the state's high costs of living. Pipeline jobs are getting scarcer now, with about 10 miles of construction left in the northern sections of the Truneau Bay area. However, plans for a natural gas pipeline on the scale of the oil pipeline have already been drafted...
Much of the blame, however, can also be placed on the cost of the war itself, which is vastly more than anyone would have predicted even a few months ago. Not only have purchases for the Army made many scarce goods scarcer, but Congress has been forced to print much more paper money than it had anticipated. According to current estimates, another 5 million Continental dollars will have to be emitted later this month in addition to the 15 million so far.* This "emission" is done simply by printing more paper money, but since Congress has no right to levy...