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...wells, and thereby rejuvenate them, has made CO2 one of the most promising ingredients in the U.S. energy mix. Indeed, oil firms are now sinking more than $1.5 billion into a pair of pipelines to deliver CO2 from southern Colorado to declining Texas oilfields, even though falling oil prices threaten to squeeze the ventures' profits...
Fighting to attract customers to these new accounts, S and Ls and banks are offering a bewildering array of double-digit interest rates, bonuses and prizes. The competition may threaten the survival of hundreds of small institutions that cannot afford to match the come-ons of their rivals. Says Robert Lackovic, executive vice president president of the San Francisco-based 1st Nationwide Savings: "It's going to be a real dogfight. The one thing regulation did was to produce a system in which the consumer knew he could walk in anywhere and get the same product. That...
...size, two-way TV teleconference screens that will obviate traveling to meetings The standard home computer is sold only to somebody who wants one, but the same machine can seem menacing when it appears in an office. Secretaries are often suspicious of new equipment, particularly if it appears to threaten their jobs, and so are executives. Some senior officials resist using a keyboard on the ground that such work is demeaning. Two executives in a large firm reportedly refuse to read any computer printout until their secretaries have retyped it into the form of a standard memo. "The biggest problem...
...missionaries, and their sensitivity to the customs and rituals of the peoples they serve, questions remain as to whether the spiritual good they do is not balanced, in part, by social and cultural harm. In the Irian Jaya village of Mulia, for example, schools set up by the missionaries threaten a complex family structure that developed over the course of centuries. The children no longer can help their mothers work in the gardens and the rise in monogamy adds to the wives' labor...
...found alarmingly sloppy oversights on a key aspect of the shuttle program: the multimillion-dollar space suits that NASA hopes will let astronauts leave the shuttle's protective confines and work directly in orbit. Any failures in the suits, which in effect are mini-space capsules, could threaten the astronauts' lives...