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...temperatures or take the chance that steel canisters filled with high-level radioactive waste might someday leak? Or would they prefer to minimize both risks in favor of heavy reliance on efficiency and alternative energy -- and then not be sure the lights will come on when they flick a switch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Power: Time to Choose | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

...pilot program is successful, Berry said, the Houses will also gradually switch from 8 oz. glasses to the new 12 oz. plastic cups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Will Switch From Paper Cups | 4/26/1991 | See Source »

Berry said yesterday that he had the environment in mind when suggesting the switch. "You can't operate in this business nowadays without starting to be environmentally conscious," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Changes Cups | 4/26/1991 | See Source »

Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 explains that the decision to switch to non-ordered choice was based on large discrepancies in statistics describing the make-up of the house populations...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Changing House Character | 4/23/1991 | See Source »

Many Serbs, though hurt by a depression that saw the republic's industrial production drop 35% last year, back Milosevic because they fear the prospect $ of a painful switch to a market-oriented economy. Strong support also comes from the federal army, whose officers enjoy privileges that would probably be jettisoned by a liberal Serbian government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia: Mass Bedlam in Belgrade | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

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