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...Ochs had to contend with Dylan, the king of the folk scene. Throughout the book Eliot creates the book's pathos by contrasting Ochs' career with Dylan's. The first album, All the News That's Fit to Sing. sold 40,000 copies. It came out at the same time, Eliot notes, as Dylan's gold album, Bringing It All Back Home...
Given the identical decisions of the ACSR and Corporation, some members of the Undergraduate Committee on Harvard Shareholder Responsibility contend the ACSR, not the Corporation, is the rubber stamp...
...criticism of Carter's approach to oil price regulation, however, goes beyond when and how he has decided to decontrol oil prices: we contend that wholesale decontrol of oil prices is an ineffective and regressive policy that should not be part of any rational energy policy, much less its cornerstone...
Proponents of decontrol contend that higher oil prices will induce consumers to conserve energy. But the demand for oil is highly inelastic: price increases do not lead to a proportionate decline in use. From 1973 to the present, the price of home heating oil increased by 184 percent; but instead of falling as the theory would predict, consumption rose 17 percent. The CBO estimates that by 1985 decontrol will reduce current levels of consumption by, at best, a meagre 1.7 percent...
Next, proponents contend that decontrol would increase oil production. But decontrol is a very inefficient way to increase oil production. While, as one expert put it, "smaller and smaller increments of hard-to-get oil are produced at higher prices, such marginal increases do not justify trebling or quadrupling the price...