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...control of all aspects of their business, from wellhead to gas pump, has given the industry too much power to manipulate supplies and prices and reap excessive profits at the expense of consumers. During the past year or so, the efforts of congressional Democrats to curb the companies' clout and inject more competition into the industry has gained increasing support. Last week, in the most far-reaching move yet, the Senate Judiciary Committee, by a vote of 8 to 7, sent to the full Senate a bill requiring the breakup of the 18 largest oil corporations...
...essential if Italy is to bring down its 25% annual inflation rate, namely, British-style wage restraints (see following story). The Communists also claim to be in the best position to reason with Italy's unruly trade unions, but many Italians doubt whether the P.C.I, has the necessary clout...
...Rosovsky has now raised an issue more complex than he had, perhaps, bargained for. The solution to "Whither the liberal arts education?" is neither black nor white; if it emerges it will do so from a much more nebulous territory where Rosovsky's iron hand packs little clout...
Harvard has always wielded a unique kind of power in the outside world, and certainly a great deal of that power has always stemmed directly from the vast amount of resources--both human and capital--available to the University. But although Harvard's clout and thus its reputation are considered without equal world-wide, such factors often mean little to critics of the University who have day-to-day contacts with Harvard: while the Shah of Iran may have unmitigated respect for an institution he has never seen, Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Velluci stands ready to pave over the Yard...
...same institution called upon to build research facilities in Third World countries couldn't muster enough political clout in its own community this past year to keep even part of the proposed Kennedy Memorial complex in or near Harvard Square...