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...consumers find they have some money left over after paying their heating bills, they plan to spend it cautiously. Fuel and heating bills finally compelled Samuel Trepanier to mothball his truck in his backyard in Clarendon, Vt. When the President announced his program, Trepanier figured: "If the rebate comes to more than $300, I'll get my pickup back on the road...
...terms of symptoms, local color and superficial how-to guides. The Detroit Free Press, to its credit, recently supplemented coverage of auto industry layoffs with a useful story on how to navigate the maze of local bureaucracies disbursing unemployment benefits. But many papers flop even in such routine backyard reporting. During the fall, for example, the Atlanta Constitution did several stories on layoffs in auto plants elsewhere, but delayed in mentioning whether factories in its own circulation area would be hit (they soon were). Its sister paper, the Journal, ran a carelessly frightening headline-PRESIDENT WARNED OF IMPENDING BANK CRISIS...
...array of computers, and they indicate-well, guess what? The "chances are 14 to 1 that this winter will be colder than that of 1973." One meteorologist with the National Weather Service, his tongue wrapped warmly in his cheek, was less confident: "I talk to the squirrels in my backyard every morning, and they don't know any more about the weather than...
...once synonymous with famine but which is now approaching self-sufficiency in food. The Chinese Communist leadership abolished peasants' private holdings and communalized all plots. Armies of laborers, often under harsh conditions, built irrigation systems, terraced farm lands in mountainous regions, food distribution networks and hundreds of small "backyard" fertilizer factories. All pretense of freedom disappeared, a price (at least in the eyes of the West) that may be too high for most L.D.C.s...
Newlin said she is pleased by student recognition of the value of documenting Harvard productions. "Sometimes I think we've had fuller coverage of London and New York than of our own backyard," she said...