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Strangely, now that the pipeline is completed, there is no place for all the oil to go. Government officials and executives of Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., the eight-company consortium* that built the line, overestimated demand for the oil's natural market: the West Coast. Between the time that oil was discovered and this week's turn-on, the nation went through two recessions, and the growth of oil demand has slowed, especially in California. Existing West Coast refineries could handle only a little more than half the pipeline's output by year...
...member Medical School Consortium last week approved a proposal for the formation of a steering committee to investigate ways to find pre-med students who possess the skills a physician needs to perform his job, Dr. Robert S. Blacklow, associate dean for academic programs at the Medical School, said yesterday...
...much as 15%. Nonetheless, hard-pressed utilities shopped far afield for additional supplies. A representative of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., one of the nation's largest pipeline companies, prowled corporate corridors in Houston cornering utility men and offering to swap heating oil for Texas natural gas. A consortium of New York State power companies arranged for an extra 50 million cu. ft. of gas from Canada and another 50 million cu. ft. from California...
Worker inefficiency has been one of the main sources of cost increases, although Faulkner said that ALYESKA, the consortium of oil companies that funded the pipeline, has improved the situation recently. Unions set the tone of work on the pipeline. It is to their advantage to spread the fixed amount of work over a longer time than would be ordinarily required, since this will increase employment. And due to "cost-plus" increased labor costs don't mean smaller profits for ALYESKA. "There just isn't a work ethic on the pipeline; in fact, you will probably be yelled...
Founded by President Lowell in 1910 in conjunction with the city-wide Lowell Institute, a public education institute funded by the Lowell family, and the Commission on Extension Courses, a consortium of local colleges including Simmons, Boston University, Mass. Institute of Technology, Boston College, Wellesley and Tufts, the Extension School has been solely a Harvard operation from the start. The Lowell Institute provides a small amount of funding (about 7 per cent of annual revenues) and the Commission a helpful facade of community cohesion and a pool for the extension school's faculty...