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...Ginna valve did open, the accident goes down in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as only a "serious failure." Rochester Gas-and Electric assured Ginna's neighbors that only "minimal" radioactivity had escaped, and set about persuading the State Public Service Commission to make customers pay for the six-month cleanup...
...that have been sold are helping banks by bringing in new deposits. Officials at New York City's Citibank, the second largest commercial bank in the nation, estimate that much of the money flowing into their All Savers accounts is coming from Citibank customers converting their high-yielding six-month accounts of $10,000 or more, which currently pay 13.7%, into All Savers accounts. There is no penalty for doing this, and depending on the customer's tax bracket, the return may be higher...
...six-month long renovations, which ended last week, will enable fuller and more flexible use of the room both as a classroom and as a courtroom for the Middlesex Superior Court, George Oomen, special assistant to the vice-president for administration, said yesterday...
What do the militant Muslims really want? This question, which began to vex the West with special urgency as the Iranian revolution unfolded, piqued the curiosity of V.S. Naipaul. Instead of simply clucking in wonder, he decided to look for an answer at the source. He mapped out a six-month itinerary that only a journalist or a masochist could love. In August 1979, it was off to Iran, a nation still rejoicing in the fall of the Shah, still tumultuous under the evolving rule of Khomeini. Then to Pakistan, the troubled state founded in 1947 as a homeland...
While making French exports cheaper, the move would also make imports more expensive. In an attempt to protect consumers, Finance Minister Jacques Delors ordered a six-month freeze on the prices of most services and a three-month ban on price hikes for such staples as milk, sugar and bread. Manufacturers were urged to hold price increases to 8% next year (vs. the current inflation rate of 14%), and importers were ordered not to widen then-profit margins. To show that it, too, could cut back, the government announced that it was postponing $2.6 billion of budgeted spending...