Word: boostings
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...dirty to burn free the world's most energy-hungry nation from its crushing dependence on foreign oil? All along, that has been the big question mark over coal, the linchpin in President Carter's National Energy Plan. Carter's goal for coal is to boost output to 1.2 billion tons a year by 1985-an unprecedented increase of almost 75% over the 685 million tons mined last year-and to coax electric utilities and industry to burn the coal instead of imported oil or scarce natural gas. A cloud of uncertainty as dark as coal dust...
...have any hope of getting unions in the private sector to take his pleas for wage-price restraint seriously; federal workers are widely believed to be overfed and underworked. And the threat of escalating wage demands has become very real in the wake of the boost in pay and benefits-estimated as high as 39% over three years-that the White House swallowed as the price of ending the coal strike. Teamster President
Nonetheless, last week's Supreme Court refusal to review the order is a significant boost for the FTC. The agency in the past seven years has forced other companies to run "corrective" ads asserting in effect that their previous ads made false claims. Companies bowing to such orders include ITT, Continental Baking for Profile bread (whose claimed fewer calories per slice, the FTC charged, was attained simply by making its slices thinner), Ocean Spray for cranberry juice and Amstar for Domino sugar. All signed consent decrees; Warner-Lambert was the first to ask the courts to rule that...
However, four big victories gave the Crimson hopes a boost. Half-mile specialist John Chafee won the 880-yd. run with a 1:53.6 clocking, while Reed Eichner smashed the Harvard-Princeton meet record in the three-mile run, with a 13:57.6 time...