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Reagan's advisers agreed that an announcement should be made before the Easter weekend in the hope that it would take some of the steam out of antinuclear demonstrations scheduled in Britain and West Germany over the holiday. (That hope was not entirely fulfilled: some 50,000 to 100,000 demonstrators linked arms on Friday to form a human chain around Greenham Common Air Base, a British facility where cruise missiles are to be installed.) Reagan first proposed to break the news in his Los Angeles speech last Thursday. But diplomats pointed out that...
...brisk business supplying fuel and repairing and retrofitting existing reactors. Much of the work involves upgrading the reactors to new federal safety standards passed after Three Mile Island, and simply replacing parts of older, worn-out reactors. Westinghouse, in fact, was sued by two California utilities last week over steam-generator breakdowns that have caused a 14-month shutdown of a 15-year-old nuclear plant near San Clemente...
...Harvard will be working with Cambridge Steam to find a more attractive way of heating the University. We wanted to force ourselves to do the long-term planning that is long overdue," Saltonstall explained, saying he expected the joint commission to make recommendations in about a year...
Despite the relatively favorable settlement for Harvard, students can expect the rise of nearly $2 million a year in fuel costs to translate into higher room charges. University officials have repeatedly cited the Cambridge Steam negotiations as a major impetus behind this year's tuition increases...
...bill for steam went up this year because of this," Scott said last month "Subsequent years will certainly be more expensive...