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...expensive defeat for the companies, which have sunk $22 million into promoting, researching and engineering the $3.5 billion installation. In the planning stage since 1962, the plant would have exploited the vast deposits of low-sulfur coal in southern Utah and, when fully operational, generated 3 million kilowatts for customers in Arizona and Southern California-enough power to meet the needs of some 3 million people. The project's demise is also a blow to the economy of Utah, which had envisioned the creation near the plant of a town of up to 15,000, additional payrolls...
...rehearsing August Strindberg's The Dance of Death, and hauled him away for interrogation on suspicion of having evaded payment of $119,000 in taxes. Although all charges were dropped last week, Bergman remained holed up on his bleak island home at Fårŏ, sunk in what doctors described as "a deep depression as a result of shock...
Most have been floated by study group after study group for 15 years, only to be sunk repeatedly by opposition from politically powerful commercial banks. The American Bankers Association has vowed "total, all-out opposition" to the Financial Institutions Act too, as had to be expected: its members would get little out of the bill except stronger competition and closer supervision...
...Mountain closed to 21-18 with six points from Steve McMahon but Marty Healy came off the bench and made his presence felt. He swiped the ball from a bewildered Jim Clement, who bowled Healy over under the hoop. He sunk his free throws and laid in two more points on a fast break next time down the floor...
Chassler's style speaks strongly about the dancer relying only on his or her self. She rejects the theatrical possibilities of costuming, lighting and decor, paring down her dance to essential movement and, even further, to the performer's highly-disciplined concentration. Chassler often works with eyes half-closed, sunk deep inside herself, focused on word imagery, the wellspring of her dance...