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Despite the Finance Committee's action, the wellhead tax is not dead. The House has approved the tax, and when the House-Senate conference meets, it may well be resurrected. What form it might take is anybody's guess. The conference could adopt Carter's rebate plan, Long's trust-fund scheme, or, what seems to many observers to be the most sensible compromise of all, a plan to rebate some of the money to consumers and some to the oil and gas companies...
...that point, Bosnic decided to adopt a new attitude. "I said to myself, `what's going to happen--just go out and do the best...
Since Vietnam, then, the Pentagon has been forced to adopt a lower profile, but it has lost none of its militarism nor has it modified its insistence on continuing nuclear armaments production and arms race escalation...
...Antonio was rudely awakened from what city officials referred to as a "cheap energy drunk." Curtailments of gas forced the city to adopt emergency conservation measures, including converting the city's electrical power generators to higher-cost fuel oil and reducing street lighting. For the past five years, an average of 156 people a day have telephoned or visited the city utility offices asking for some kind of relief or further credit or, at least, that their gas not be shut...
...over special interest lobbyists." At a press conference later in the week, he softened his remarks, calling the lobbyists "well-meaning people" and saying of the Senators, "I am not criticizing them, but I think that as they hear the voice of the American people ... they will move to adopt the major parts of the program...