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...least for the moment, many of the coal companies' plans for expansion. "It is fair to say that this bill was not designed to facilitate the mining of western coal but rather to prevent it," complains Donald Cook, chairman of the nation's second-largest coal user, the American Electric Power...
...involving products with defects that could be fatal to consumers have evoked little in the way of a response. In 1974, the CPSC issued a recall order for a $2 "trouble light" distributed mainly by Pennsylvania-based Action Industries. The device, when held a certain way, could electrocute a user, and one already had done so. Action Industries hired a public relations firm to mount a nationwide campaign publicizing the dangers and the recall of the item and offering a full refund. But only 15% of the 145,000 or so lights that had been sold to consumers were returned...
...Bogdanovich hasn't captured the style that made Astaire and Rogers so special. He user the overblown sets and casts of thousands that helped to kill of movie musicals in the late 60's when Fred and Ginger started dancing, all the people and furniture disappeared. Cybill and Burt, on the other hand, come dangerously close to bashing into a number of white silk couches--and also the other dancers...
...fixture on the seedy North Beach scene in the past few years, the pair-especially Eben-according to Grim developed another expensive taste: hard drugs. Eben is chronically depressed and often disturbed, and is a serious user of heroin. Grim says that Amy was an occasional user of cocaine. He further maintains that in the weeks before her death both Eben and his sister were being shaken down by the same drug dealer; Amy, he says, may have owed the dealer as much as $5,000, Eben as much as $2,500. The dealer, he implies, threatened the pair...
Harold L. Goyette, director of the University planning office said yesterday that the increased parking rates have no bearing on the compliance with the EPA regulations. "They are intended only to shift some of the costs from the Faculty to the user," Goyette said...