Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atom and travel to the moon, the NRC engineers who first went to Three Mile Island had trouble keeping in communication with their home office. Says one NRC official in Washington: "We had a hell of a time trying to find out what was going on. The whole commercial phone system was jammed. We couldn't get through...
...State allocations. As a further move to curb gasoline demand, which is rising almost three times as rapidly as oil consumption as a whole, Carter announced a plan to bring state governments into the conservation act. He said that he would soon set strict gasoline reduction timetables for all 50 states, and that if they were not met he would ask for mandatory weekend closings of service stations...
...terms of earnings growth, oil companies have fared marginally better than industry as a whole. From 1977 to 1978, according to Data Resources, the earnings of all U.S. companies expanded by 15.9%, while those of domestic oil firms rose by 16.4%. For the international oil firms, however, the growth was much less, about 1%, as a result of the dollar's decline and price controls in foreign markets...
...further development of nuclear power. He said this week we cannot "abandon the nuclear supply of energy in our country, in the for seeable future." His assessment is not astonishing, when cities like Chicago get almost half their electricity from nuclear plants and the nation as a whole gets 12 to 13 per cent of its electricity from reactors...
However, though the entertainment and the steady offense were there. Brown was not satisfied. "I'll be honest with you, we were flat going into the game today." Brown said afterwards. "I speak for the whole team, but I take the responsibility," he added...