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Cheap oil is of course a boon for the U.S., Western Europe, Japan, Brazil and other heavy consumers. Lower energy costs can boost economic growth, reduce interest rates and inflation, and create more jobs. Unemployment in the U.S., for example, is declining significantly. The Labor Department reported last week that the jobless rate fell from 6.9% in December to 6.7% last month...
...church. Another factor: the Federal Communications Commission decided to give equal "public service" credit to paid religion and free-time shows. Stations were eager to sell time and increase profits, and the Evangelicals were ready. Their 40 years in the paid-time wilderness turned out to be a boon. Additional UHF and cable outlets became available to them. Videotaping facilitated cheap production and distribution. The computer brought magical mass fund raising...
...History Department are, to some extent, inevitable, but much can be done to ameliorate them. A student-faculty committee to provide students with input into decisions about course offerings is a necessary first step. Flashy course offerings are great, but a little more stability would be a boon not only to history concentrators, but also to the many undergrads at Harvard who leaf longingly through the History Department's fabulous list of course offerings only to discover that the courses they want to take were offered last year or will be given sometime before the year...
...Beanpot is a notorious boon for underdogs, but this year, all four of the teams sport winning records and three of them--B.C., Harvard and Northeastern--are ranked in the top 10 in most national polls...
Canada, which runs the seaway with the U.S., was blamed by some port directors for failing to maintain its side of the aging system. Opened in 1959 by President Eisenhower, who hailed it as an economic boon for the region, the seaway links the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario to the rest of the Great Lakes. The seaway experienced a first catastrophe last year, when a lift bridge at Valleyfield, Que., jammed. That caused an 18-day shutdown and cost shippers more than $40 million in lost business. At an Ottawa press conference last week, William...