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...television, the ballplayers say they adjust their batting to the wind and they figure the wind by checking the ball-park flag. Hell, half these guys don't know what a flag is. Right, Pete...
...just what kind of decontrol they will recommend, no one can judge the program's adequacy. But the portents are not favorable. The idea of keeping a "cap" on prices is unwise. It would interfere with what should be a prime goal of decontrol: letting the market adjust prices so that a B.T.U.* would cost roughly the same whether it was produced by burning oil, gas, coal or whatever. Only in that way can the U.S. get the most efficient use of fuels...
...program provides full financial support to all of its members and helps them adjust to the urban setting by creating a sense of community, Whiteman said yesterday...
...Sian. With no one to cajole or control her, she took out her frustrations on her two children by beating them compulsively. Even as adults they showed the effects of having been battered, Chiang Ch'ing said. Like their mother and because of her they failed to adjust to the demands of socialist life...
...much less formal: they don't want or they already have a liberal arts degree. What they do want is to acquire skills to satisfy their own creative urges or help them survive-plant-growing and plumbing, for instance." Colleges and universities will have to adjust swiftly to this developing educational market -even if tenured professors of medieval English have to be retrained to teach ceramics and auto repair...