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This conflict points to an issue crucial to the power plant controversy: Harvard argues that it must continue construction at a fast rate or costs will skyrocket, while power plant opponents fear that the extensive construction only serves to strengthen the University's case for a reversal of the DEQE decision. Bracken said University officials involved with the construction "are moving ahead as fast as they possibly can--the more they put in, the more difficult it will be to stop them."Mission Hill residents last April delivered a petition against the Medical School Area power plant to President...
...medical costs skyrocket and more American women choose natural childbirth, often at home, over the impersonal facilities offered by many hospitals, it seems likely that the trend will accelerate. A bill, currently pending in Congress-sponsored by Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii-would authorize Medicaid payment of fees to nurse midwives. Next week the California assembly will consider a bill, backed by Governor Jerry Brown, legalizing the practice of mid wifery by adequately trained people whether or not they are also registered nurses...
...distressing to see an article like this making our work seem so futile. We do care and we do take over where parents and the community fail in their dealings with youthful offenders. And the day we give up on them is the day when juvenile crime will skyrocket...
These swings are, humanly enough, magnified by corporate officers, who pooh-pooh losses while boasting about profit increases in hyperbolic press releases. The press then magnifies the problem by often reporting profits in language more appropriate to space shots or sporting events: profits leap, soar, skyrocket-or plunge, plummet, nosedive...
...himself of the whiff of financial scandal. Typical was the Shinano-Gawa riverbed case of 1964. A nameless company bought an abandoned tract of dry land in the Shinano River, then made a killing later on when the government revealed railroad and highway projects that caused land prices to skyrocket; the company also turned out to have a former secretary to Tanaka on its board of directors. Though accused repeatedly of corruption, Tanaka until last week always managed to avoid legal action. But in November 1974, an exposé of his kinken record in a Japanese magazine, describing dummy corporations...