Word: apportionment
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So last week Deputy Treasury Secretary William Simon, chairman of the Government's Oil Policy Committee, announced an Administration plan to allocate petroleum supplies. The aim, Simon said, is "to share the shortages equitably." Basically, the measure asks major petroleum refiners and marketers to apportion their supplies to customers...
In the end, though, no amount of administrative reform is likely to save Americans from the necessity of paying higher taxes. The nation is not running out of money so much as it has misallocated its resources so badly that it now faces a staggering bill for the public services...
Mills is inviting the nation's Governors and mayors to testify in the weeks ahead. He expects their testimony to undermine whatever little remains of Nixon's case for revenue sharing. Things may not necessarily work out that way, however. Many of the Governors, and especially the mayors...
We have generally avoided bylines for one major reason: most of our stories are the result of a collaboration among many individuals, so that credit is difficult if not impossible to apportion. We have followed this method not out of any abstract devotion to what has sometimes been called group...
> How to apportion thousands of election districts, ranging from the Congress to city council seats. With the new judicial toughness on the one-man, one-vote principle of representation, an accurate count can have a profound effect upon political patterns.