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...nuclear plants that now generate 11.5% of the nation's electricity as well as for the 92 plants still under construction. The new rules will include two of the most urgent recommendations of the presidential commission, which was headed by Dartmouth President John Kemeny. One was for stiffer training of plant operators. The other was for emergency evacuation plans for people living within a ten-mile radius of nuclear plants...
...because prices and profits are up, domestic drilling is booming. The number of oil rigs at work in the U.S. has jumped from 1,929 in April to 2,391 at present and is expected to reach 2,600 by year's end. It is highly questionable whether stiffer controls or nationalization would spur more efficiency. The record of the Post Office and the heavily regulated railroads is hardly encouraging...
...they simply borrowed, say, dollars in New York or pounds in London, they would be forced to pay stiffer rates than for Eurocurrencies...
...chose the plan, proposed by the Educational Resources Group (ERG), over a stiffer option recommended by Mack I. Davis, director of advanced standing, which would grant sophomore standing only to students who received a score of 4 on four A.P. exams. The highest possible grade...
...rule changes may not even affect the size of Dr. Davis's program. For one thing, if requirements for eligibility were raised, those students who met the stiffer standards might be far more likely to actually accept Sophomore Standing. In addition, raising the standards might simply encourage more students to take an additional A.P. course in high school without materially affecting the size of Harvard's program...