Alaska oil price question marks cheap flow yet
As Prudhoe Bay oil nears delivery, analysts caution the cost of moving oil to markets will be high. Estimates place transport at about 4.60 dollars per barrel to reach consumers, with additional distribution costs and taxes shaping whether Alaskan oil can compete with Arabian crude.
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Prudhoe Bay
North Slope
Federal Energy Administration
Valdez
Rocky Mountains
Panama Canal
Nuclear energy risk and public debate in 1977
Paul Harvey argues that nuclear energy provides about 10 percent of U.S. power with 64 reactors active and 164 under development but faces public fear and heavy regulation. He compares build times, cites EPA lessons on risk, notes Alaska pipeline wildlife concerns, and references a Scientific American piece claiming energy as dangerous as Edison warned a century earlier.
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Paul Harvey
Los Angeles
Scientific American
Thomas Alva Edison
From spy satellite maker to U S buyer
National Reconnaissance Office runs top secret spy satellites with contracts totaling at least 1.5 billion dollars a year. Key policymakers surface from White House and CIA with seats like the Air Force undersecretary, creating conflicts of interest as figures move between Lockheed Martin and Martin Marietta and the Pentagon.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
National Reconnaissance Office
America
NRO
NRC
White House
Antagon
Central Intelligence Agency
Air Force
James Plummer
Lockheed Corporation
Lockheed
Corporation
Senate
Armed Services
John Stennis
Stennis
Plummer
Pentagon
Missiles and Space Company
Sunnyvale
Calif
Albert Hall
Martin Marietta
Defense
Hall
Defense Department
Pv Oer Sovie Artyr
Hillel Butman
Russia
Air travel debate shadows the deregulation question
Journalist George F. Will amusingly critiques airline peculiarities from peanut portions to in-flight entertainment while arguing deregulation may not cut fares. He notes airlines are quasi utilities handling vast intercity traffic, and warns against fetishizing competition, urging measured policy.
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George F. Will
Washington Post Co
Washington
American Airlines
Civil Aeronautics Board
U.S
Falkland
New York
Miami
London
Rome
Disraeli
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Environmental Protection Agency
Alaska
Congress
Spy Satellite Maker
Fee
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Perm
Butman
Batman
Vladimir
Eva
Boston
Alotic
Wm. E. Foster
Alta W. Foster
Biddeford
Saco
B.F.C. Whitehouse
W. Paul Casavant
Brian C. Thayer
Gladys M. Whitehouse
United Airlines
United
Northwest
TWA
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