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...enough to allow oil companies to build the additional refineries that are needed to do the job. If Congress and the Administration feel that doing that is asking too much, auto emission standards themselves will have to be eased substantially. Indeed, the only other choice would seem to be chronic and enervating gasoline shortages for years to come...
They were neither an admirable nor likable pair, but the diary is far from an odious document. If it does not redeem them, it does manage to enhance them, principally because of their love for each other. In his chronic deep depressions Wagner felt that only Cosima's existence kept him from suicide. On their son's first birthday she writes, "At 4:30 I am awakened by sweet sounds, R. at the piano proclaiming to me the hour of birth." He would sing to her as she worked, a cantilena from / Puritani, a melody of Beethoven...
...became acute when four tropical storms hit in one week, flooding the Mekong Delta rice fields. The floods destroyed as much as 80 per cent of the rice crop, and Vietnam now needs the American trade embargo lifted to gain access to U.S. agricultural products. While the chronic Third World ailments are forcing Vietnam to push for closer ties with the United States the Carter administration, by not responding to Vietnamese gestures, is sacrificing any ability to realize the long term interests that the U.S. was supposedly protecting when it fought its splendid little war not so many years...
After ten years in power, Trudeau also suffers from chronic overexposure. In 1976 his popularity soared, following the election of Separatist Premier Rene Levesque in predominantly French-speaking Quebec. Anglophone Canadians then felt that Trudeau, a bilingual Quebecois from Montreal, was uniquely qualified to fight the breakaway movement in the country's largest province (pop. 6 million). Since then, Levesque has cannily soft-pedaled his political line. As a result, the urgency of the separatist threat to Canada's 111-year-old confederation has worn off outside Quebec...
...vaccine program is especially aimed at people over 50 and people with chronic conditions," said King. He added that the vaccine is not recommended for pregnant women...