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SAWHILL: We need a major R. and D. effort to develop new natural gas supplies from conventional as well as nonconventional sources like coal-bed methane and tidal sands. The future for nuclear energy now looks bleak, and I don't think we will return to a coal-based economy. We are going to have to shift to a new base of energy technologies, such as solar energy, nonconventional gas and perhaps shale oil or liquefied coal...
...these moons, is riddled with craters, apparently the result of pummeling by meteorites for some 4 billion years. Although it is mountainless, Callisto has a feature never before seen in the solar system: a huge, smooth, circular basin rimmed with concentric ridges that look almost like a frozen tsunami (tidal wave). Appearances may not be entirely deceiving: the scientists speculated that these ridges were created when a particularly large meteorite hit, melted subsurface ice and caused the water to spread out from the place of impact, only to freeze rapidly again...
...Hollywood too, calamity pays. From Earthquake to The Towering Inferno and The Last Wave disaster flicks have been the most profitable genre of the 1970s. Nor is the deluge tapering off. Coming attractions include: Meteor and The Day the World Ended (by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tidal waves...
...white and primitive good. A few scenes of the ghetto in which the Aborigines live are lifeless, the city has no character, and the film disintegrates into stock effects. Chamberlain discovers a secret Aborigine city beneath Sydney, and learns that an ancient white civilization was destroyed by a giant tidal wave, and that another one is due very soon. Some sort of eternal justice will destroy the white man's injustice. At the very end of the film, Chamberlain escapes from the underground city only to look up and see the big water...
...challenges to the Carter Administration's program to stop inflation, the most daunting is next year's tidal wave of labor negotiations. Even before the President announced his program of voluntary wage-price restraints, the 1979 bargaining calendar looked rugged. Next year, contracts covering 3.7 million workers expire, compared with roughly 2 million in 1978. In an era when industry is struggling to hold down costs and union members have seen inflation eating up their wage gains, the stage is set for confrontation. Says John Gentry, labor relations adviser to Alfred Kahn, the nation's top inflation...