Word: adds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Motorists are perplexed by the price differences that they notice from region to region, city to city and even block to block. The reasons for the discrepancies are complex and varied. Taxes can make a big difference. In Chicago myriad federal, state, county and sales taxes add up to about 17? per gal. (the federal tax alone is 4?). But in Houston levies total only 9?, and lucky motorists there were tanking up on regular last week for only 60.9? per gal. at self-service stations. Freight charges vary from next to nothing in an oil-producing state like Texas...
...boosted its wholesale price for regular gas by 4.3%, to 47.9? per gal.; Mobil has lifted its price 10% to 51.9? per gal. and Amoco 11.4% to 50.6? per gal. The service station dealers then normally pass these wholesale increases on to their retail customers. The station owners commonly add 10? or more to the wholesale price in order to maintain their own margins. For many stations, these margins are not enough to keep abreast of inflation. Others can only offset a relatively small profit at the pump through their lucrative automobile service operations...
...increase in applicants at the Med School may add fuel to a Congressional debate next week on a Carter proposal to cut federal "capitation grants," funds awarded to U.S. medical schools in proportion to their enrollments...
...add insult to injury to more insult, the extracurricular activities that the Third World people engage in slip your narrow-minded Western perspective as being the most 'barbaric' things that a person would do in Western civilization. You then go on to make a farce out of the hundreds of years of blatant discrimination suffered by the people of the Third World by placing us on the same level as, and thus equating us with freaks and outcasts...
Because supporters of home rule can be found on both sides of the devolution issue, as can supporters of a continued United Kingdom, it is not surprising that the significance of the devolution vote is foggy. Add to this the charge that more than ten per cent of the names of Scotland's voting rolls are invalid, and the fact that Britain has no established tradition of referendum, and it becomes clear that the devolution vote will not be the last the world hears of Scottish home rule...