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Show DAILY HERALD Saturday, April 22, 2006 | Mill Homes Continued from D6 Continued from Dé "Mirewane of das atoes the report said. Median home prices were up median price to $174,945. Gas ray, said buyers looking in range are having the most Jordan just two daysafter it went on the market in late sponding. Continued from D6 transportation fuel to manage crops andlivestock, and that makes it difficult to significantly curtail consumption on a dayto-day basis. However, ranchers he knowsarefinding ways to scrimp, for example, using four-wheelall-terrain vehicles insteadof pickuptrucksto get aroundtheir properties. And because most ranchers live 30 miles or more from the closest grocery, drug store or bank, “they maymakeonetrip to town per weekinstead of two,” said Magagna. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation’s largest retailer, warned earlier this week that it expected reduced sales throughout 2006 from its least wealthy customers, and the company highlighted its strategy to market more higher-end goods to maintain growth. And after reporting a $92 million first-quarter loss, AMR Corp.'s American Airlines, the country’slargest carrier,said it would mothball 27ofits most inefficient air- craft. - The Energy Department released data this week showing that average daily gasoline If there is going to be anysignificantdecline in energy prices this year, “it is going to start with softening demand,” said Peter Beutel, president of Cameron HanoverInc., an energy market advisory firm based in New Canaan, Conn, A.G. Edwards & Sons commodities analyst Bill O'Grady explained that because of constraintsin oil production and refining “very small increases in demandbring about outsized gains in prices. Likewise, a very small drop in demand would havea similar but opposite impact. That's the part that's going to surprise people.” So far, though, the evidence . Pointsto only a minisculeshift in behavior nationwide, and no decelerationin prices. Wachovia Corp. economist Jason Schenkersaid he expects the mostprice-sensitive Americans to continue cutting back on gasoline where they can, and that their spending on other goods is also likely taper off. However, this should only be felt at the margins of total economic growth, which will remain steady at about 3.5 per- centin 2006, he said, because employment and wagesare ris! “What happens in those lowerquintiles is not indicative of what happens in aggregate,” Schenkersaid. But corporate America is re- Nu Skin demandsince the beginning of the year rose 0.9 percent. That compares with an increase of 1.4 percent during the same pe- riod last year. Meantime,retail gasoline prices, which average $2.86 nationwide, haverisen by about 60 centsa gallon since the start of the year due to a combination ofrising oil prices, dwindling supplies andjitters about possible supply disruptions when the Gulf of Mexico hurricane season begins in June. Thereis additional concern this year about the availability ofethanol, a corn-derived fuel thatis helping to replace a gasoline additive known as MTBE, which enables fuel to burn more cleanly but is being phased out next month because it has been found to contaminate drinking water. Somefueldistributors say they are already experiencinglogistical challenges as terminal owners drain their tanks of MTBE-laced gasoline in preparation for the switch to ethanolblends. Stuart Lowry,director of marketing at Tiger FuelCo.in Charlottesville, Va., said retailers may haveto wait longer than usual for deliveries until the transition is complete, meaning tanks could briefly go empty — a supply hiccup he refers to as “ethanolhell.” Of course, for many families it is their wallets, not their fuel tanks,that are in real danger of Caroderm also accused Nu Skin of jeopardizing its efforts to market its technology to Nidek Ltd., a Japanese maker of ophthalmic and optometric and also Continued from D6 from the sale of Pharmanex supplements, “We wonthe jury trial ver- dict last June. But Caroderm appealed the verdict a few months later,” said Tyler Whitehead, a producer of artificial skin for burn victims. But 3rd District Court Judge Ann Boyden denied Caroderm's Nu Skin's general counsel. “So were-entered into negotiations with them and ended up buying Caroderm andits partial rights to the license in March. And claims.In final judgment on June 9, 2005, Boyden ruled Nu Skin and itsdistributors are entitled to use the technology for-promotion andsale of nutritional supplements exclusively. At the heart of the lawsuit was a dispute between Nu Skin and Caroderm —.both of which hadlicensing agreements with the University of Utah — over whereand for what purpose the ee technology can be “Any of Nu Skin’slicensed their appeal was dismissed.” Lerceer sought to stop Nu Skin's distributors, some of whom were doctors, from marketing BioPhotonic scanners in clinics, hospitals and other medical centers nationwide. That, the suit said, was an abaseas of Ce sersci ci gy topn tive-spewing accidents. Fear of global climate change also could give nuclear power a resurgence, and Larsen said he ed uranium prices to climb to more than $50 a pound and hold there. “Wethink our nation needs more nuclear power.It's the cleanest, the cheapest andit's advanced so much we'renot going to have another Chernobyl,” said Larsen, who was born and raised in Utah,the son of an underground uranium miner. “Three Mile Island is still the $150,000 to $200,000 price nearly 14 percent to $187,950 in Utah County. In Davis County, a 10.4 percent increase sent the a caused by fear of radioac- with Century 21 Elite in Mur- down fromne)Says 61 8 yaar Op, independentdistributors who are membersof the professional medical community may use the technology for the promotion andsale of nutritional supplementsas long as it is not used in a medical clinical setting or for trouble finding available homes. Even $250,000 homes are in short supply, he said. running on The Sectof of rising gasoline prices 't be viewed in isolation, said Carol Clements, chair of the National Fuels Fund Network, which provides emergency financial assistance to = families that cannot pay = “All of these energy os are having a compoundingeffect,” she said. “We're seeing. nation’s largest low-level radioactive waste dump in Utah's west desert and has plans to The crushed uranium miner- seek approval for more radio- als would be packed in steel drums and sent by trucks to a plant in Metropolis, Ill., that mixes yellowcake with gas for enrichment The report says a direct hit active waste. Those plans were. put on hold at the behest of state politicians fighting a repository for highlyradioactive spent fuel from a tornado was the only reservation in Skull Valley Last September, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave rods in canisters at an Indian “conceivable” mishap that could release “large quantities” ern Utah. Countydisposalsite Utah has askedafederal appeals court to overturn that teau Resources Ltd. filed for International Uranium Corp. operates Utah’s onlyother ura- Bushin January to create the Resources would take ore from mines throughout south- the license earlier this year at nium mill, 66 mileseast of Tica- the Utah Division of Radiation Control, which hired an outside southeast-of Salt LakeCity. consultant to evaluate the technical merits of the proposal. its approvalfor that Tooele ofradiation at the mill. 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Late last year, with electricity and home-heating bills soaring, Kenneth Taylortried to pinch pennies by not taking his highblood-pressure medications as frequently as ees Hesoon col and landed himself in the hospital. His wife Edith now makes sure Kenneth doesn't repeat that mistake, but other spending cuts will certainly be madeandthe couple has _not ruled out selling their car. “You haveto give things up,” she said. medical diagnostic purposes,” Boyden wrotein the ruling. With the acquisition of Caroderm’slicense rights, Nu Skin nowplans to broaden technical of the BioPh scannerin nutrition science. UTAH COUNTY’S LARGEST! PIANO SALE GRANDS,VERTICALPIANOS, DIGITAL PIANOS AND PLAYERPIANOS! OVER 100 118 East Main * Lehi 768-9514 INTEGRITY It’s what every person should expect. It’s what every person receives at Wing. The Largest Collection of Pianos and Grand Pianos Ever Seen In Utah County! Spinets, Consoles, Studios, Grands,Digitals, & Player Pianos! 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