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...solar power represent the way out of the United States' dependence on imported oil, most people would dismiss you as a "freak" from California or the Sierra Club. However, if you told that to the members of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School, they'd most likely slap you on the back and welcome you to the club...
...homeowner, I regret your revealing that house prices have soared from $27,600 in 1972 to $62,900 in May [July 23]. President Carter and Congress may see those figures and slap a "windfall profits" tax on anyone who sells a home. Such a levy would be consistent with the windfall profits tax on oil companies. After all, the homeowner has done nothing to reap that gain-it is a true windfall...
...saucy hooker on his way to a Halloween party with his girlfriend--a hooker as well. They bounded down the stairs with all their playground energy and they encountered the infamous and repulsive Harvard apparition of drunken preppie-jocks. There they were, Little Joe and Rhonda, their slap-happy presence blazing through a clumsy mob of drunken, tuxedoed pretension...
Critical as the investigators may have been of the utility, the NRC itself got a wrist slap from Congress. In a report approved by a 29-to-2 vote, the House Government Operations Committee severely chided the commission for failing "to demonstrate strong constructive leadership" in developing evacuation plans and related emergency procedures for areas surrounding nuclear plants. Of 25 states that have these facilities, the study said, 16 do not have such NRC-approved plans. As one committee staffer summed up: the NRC just "pretended that accidents could not happen...
Yant says he feels vindicated, but not completely satisfied. "Weikel is getting by with a slap on the wrist," he complains Yant is now working on a book about his experiences, while trying to straighten out his lawsuits and his life. He has gained one perspective. "I came here thinking this would be the typical mid-American city," he says. "The sad thing is, it just maybe...