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Still, someone was bound to try electrifying the orchestra, and though much work remains to be done, the implications are worth examining. Ordinary orchestras cost more and more to run, and funds are growing scarcer and scarcer. A small electrified orchestra might solve many a local impresario's money problems. If the engineering were expert enough, and enough loudspeakers placed in the right places, an electrified orchestra could solve any problem of hall acoustics...
...Hanley's solitary reflections have taught him that there is really no satisfying man's greed, lust and appetite for novelty. In independent Kenya, where he returns to observe, only the Tusker beer seems to be the same. Many of his friends are gone, the game is scarcer and, as Hanley had noticed in much of East Africa, "the cement mixers are massing on the horizon...
...becomes scarcer, it will become costlier, Wagner asserts, and companies must search harder for alternative sources of energy, particularly from coal. "We can make gas from coal while it is still in the mine, and we can make oil from coal. Coal has a future, and a very long one; the world has coal reserves for hundreds of years, not just for half a century, as it has for oil." He also argues that the world should limit its use of energy: "At the moment we waste some of it, using it as if there were no tomorrow. We overheat...
...predicts that 90% of all oil and gas will be gone by 2035, about 90% of all coal by 2300. Before that doomsday comes, most experts believe, technology can provide alternate sources of power, notably through nuclear energy. In the meantime, however, fuel supplies are al ready becoming scarcer, harder to dig out and thus more expensive. The focal point of this energy crisis-the point at which demand is growing fastest and threatening most immediately to out strip available supplies-is in electric power, which is largely derived from fossil fuels (oil, coal...
...bombing of the Hanoi-Haiphong area in retribution for the North Vietnamese invasion provoked fresh editorial skirmishing between Administration critics and supporters. While the differences were as sharp as in the late '60s, hawkish editors and columnists seemed scarcer than before. Generally the hawks backed bombing as the means to hasten the U.S. pullout from Viet Nam, while doves dwelt on the dangers of deeper involvement in the fighting and confrontation with Moscow...