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...between communities over water rights, he notes, are now arising in Colorado and are likely to spread into states downstream of the rivers that flow from Colorado to the Midwest and South. Brackish water seeping into overworked underground sources is a growing woe in Florida. The energy shortage will worsen the situation because more and more water will be needed to produce coal slurry, shale oil and other synthetic fuels...
...Premier's aides did not attempt to mask their concern that his condition could worsen and conceivably even force his resignation. In a swirl of rumors, Israelis asked themselves if his health might not already be perhaps more impaired than his doctors would admit...
...considerably more than it brought in last year, when the start of shipments from Alaska temporarily held down imports. But it would be a low enough ceiling to force curtailment of some cherished petroleum-wasting habits such as lavish outdoor lighting displays, and it might extend or worsen the present prospects of recession. The Europeans accepted the principle of setting country-by-country limits, and of applying them to consumption as well as imports, but held off actually working them out until after a meeting of the nine-nation European Community later this year...
...disruption is certain to worsen a severe food shortage...
...controversy over the proper approach to city planning has been raging for some time, becoming more acute as urban problems worsen. Criticism has battered the CRP, whose approach is decidedly untraditional. CRP opponents complain that the GSD, under the guidance of Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the GSD, is turning the planner into a technocrat, skilled in economic modelling and computer analysis, but insensitive to human concerns and aesthetic problems. Their criticism of Kilbridge extend outside the CRP to what they see is an insensitivity to the other more design-oriented departments at the school. CRP officials say Harvard...