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This opposition has had quite an impact. Five years ago, industry spokesmen were confidently predicting that the U.S. would have 1,000 realtors producing power by the year 2000, and utilities were ordering 40 new plants annually. But last year utilities ordered only four new nuclear plants and deferred or canceled plans to build seven more. An important reason for the slowdown is that demand for electric power has not risen as rapidly as forecasters anticipated. Yet another major factor is that delays-some necessary, others merely obstructionist-have stretched completion time of a plant to ten to twelve years...
...announcement drew favorable reactions from union spokesmen who indicated yesterday that they would be ready to travel...
SUCH AN ARGUMENT is a popular one, especially during times of what the syndicated columnists like to call "campus unrest." Antiadministration spokesmen will argue that only by attacking the powers-that-be with the power of the press, such as it is, can student activism gain more than a minor victory. Abandon objectivity, they counsel--isn't it really just a phantom, a golden idol that newsmen worship as an excuse for justifying the status quo? Doesn't every word imply a judgment at least implicitly? When the "objective" newsman, for instance, decides to call a military junta a "government...
Later, the Administration tried to make it clear that it was serious. In background sessions with newsmen, Administration spokesmen outlined a three-pronged program. First, they said, the Federal Reserve Board would be taking steps, in concert with other central banks, to strengthen the greenback, and had already been moving "more actively" in buying dollars to prop up their price. Second, the Administration would step up efforts to get Congress to pass Carter's energy program, which would reduce oil imports and thus stem the drain of dollars out of the U.S. Indeed, Carter personally lobbied House members...
Quite a few Ford executives were in a nervous and edgy mood. Company spokesmen denied speculations that a purge of Iacocca's supporters was imminent. They also denied a report that Henry Ford may dismiss three of the company's outside directors because they had held private talks with Iacocca when he was trying to line up their support in the crucial weeks just before he was sacked...