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...Britons bundled up in sweaters inside their chill homes and offices and scurried at night through streets that had been curiously darkened, the country last week shifted to a three-day work week in yet another effort to conserve coal supplies and electrical power. The austerity measure, decreed by Prime Minister Edward Heath last month after Britain's coal miners refused to work overtime pending a new wage settlement, means pay cuts of up to 40% for 15 million British workers, massive unemployment, and sharp curtailments in industrial production...
...more-expensive fuel. Schools rank relatively low in the national priorities for heating oil and gasoline. So they must husband every ounce if they are to get through the academic year (180 days in most public systems) with their programs reasonably fulfilled. For some, that entails closing in the chill of winter and making up the lost time during the spring and early summer vacation periods. New York City is looking at several contingency plans, including one calling for four-day weekends whenever a holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday, as do Lincoln's Birthday...
...foundation of this airy palace of fiction (Boucher was far too rational, too much a Frenchman of the 18th century, ever to confuse art with reality) was, inevitably, the female nude, for which Boucher discovered a fresh convention. Since the chill goddesses of the Fontainebleau school in the 16th century, the nude in French art had retained some measure of Gothic proportion- elongated torso, small high breasts - and a distinct aura of remoteness. Boucher's nude was small, full and rounded: a compact little machine à plaisir, borne up like a plump rose on tumultuous puffs of cloud...
...lead to more individual suits in the state and federal courts where previously one collective proceeding would have covered a specific issue. But the majority apparently believes that tough standards will at least cut the federal work load. Consumer and environmental advocates fear that the new decision is a chill wind for class actions. Said Bill Butler, Washington counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund: "It's a severe blow to the unorganized, ad hoc groups that want action on particular offenses." Certain kinds of class actions, such as those involving antitrust and various kinds of civil rights...
...airlines drafted plans to drop a fifth of their flights next month, and a series of protests against the fuel cutbacks-by pilots, truck drivers, gas-station owners -gave a tinge of anarchy to the week's events. All the while, the Arabs deepened the chill by announcing further oil-output reductions...