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...have to do was declare his candidacy, and the money would have started pouring in from well-heeled liberal well-wishers. Four years ago, that might have worked. But now the fat cats have been cut off-unless they want to break the law. The lean cats are growing scarcer and leaner all the time. Says Feldman: "It used to be fairly easy to find five people who would give $20,000 each. It is much, much harder to find 100 people who will give...
...will spare no effort to develop alternative sources of energy. Yet up to now the Administration has not answered the fundamental policy question: What should replace oil and natural gas, which presently supply more than 75% of the nation's power needs but are rapidly becoming scarcer as well as more costly...
Reading material for the 38 blacks, 20 whites and four Indians is scarce. Every day a single newspaper is delivered to each of the three tiers. It makes its way section by section down the row of cells. Books and magazines are even scarcer. The inmates pass their days in numbing boredom...
Americans throw away 125 million tons of garbage every year. In the past, it has been routinely picked up, hauled away and dumped somewhere?out of sight and mind. But lately, as disposal costs mount and dumping sites in metropolitan areas get scarcer, cities have been thinking anew about their solid wastes. What they have found is that from 70% to 80% of the refuse consists of paper, cardboard, wood, plastics and food scraps. The rest is mostly glass and metal. Their conclusion: with a little modern alchemy, municipal garbage can be converted into municipal gold...
Going into the negotiations, the rank and file were in a feisty mood and fully aware of their new power in an era of scarcer, costlier energy. Expressing the attitude of the majority, West Virginia Miner Jim ("Catfish") Barlow, 27, said: "This time we are going to get something or we're going to shut down everything-everything. I feel we got to get it now or it's gonna be too late...