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...example of MR&A's media relations efforts was "The Energy Game," a motley-colored heuristic board game designed to spell out alternative energy scenarios for the United States. "The Energy Game" postulates a total energy demand figure for the year 2000, projecting current energy consumption trends and the effect of conservation. Each player then deploys existing energy resources and technologies to fulfill this requirement. A red light pops up and alarms sound if he exceeds environmental constraints on coal use or solar research and development limits. The game similarly constrains the extent of possible nuclear energy use, reflecting Westinghouse...
...council is reluctant to agree to hire more interpreters until the budget-cutting Proposition 2 1/2 is voted on in November. If the proposition passes "that will spell the death knell for human services in general," Docouto said...
...economics." John Anderson scoffed that he was working "with mirrors." Jimmy Carter derisively charged that his schemes would so deplete the Treasury that the Government could not afford to keep even "the night watchman at the Lincoln Memorial." Through it all, Ronald Reagan fed the doubts by refusing to spell out what kind of economic program he had in mind beyond his seemingly impossible promise to lower taxes, increase military spending and balance the budget. Last week, finally, he supplied some of the details of his proposals and produced a kind of five-year plan for capitalism that...
...campaign may have been, in the words of his friend, former Senator John Tunney of California, "a campaign of atonement." Said Tunney: "That campaign and that speech spell the end of the Chappaquiddick era. It is something that had to be done." But the reception of Kennedy's speech last week inevitably raises the question of whether the 1984 Ted Kennedy will be the Ted that America saw in the campaign or the Ted who spoke so magnificently on the convention podium. All year the irony has been that the further Kennedy seemed from the nomination, the better he performed...
Even Scottish Laborite M.P. Willie Hamilton, who has made a career of being the scourge of all royals, great and small, fell under her spell. "For a fleeting moment my hatchet is buried, my venom dissipated," confessed the man who has called the royal family "goldplated scroungers." The zealous antimonarchist explained his truce by marveling at the Queen Mother's ability to combine "a love of the countryside, a passion for horses and dogs, an enthusiasm for angling -and, so it is said, a wholesome taste for a wee dram of her native Scotland's national beverage-harmless...