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...energy, I do stand by my contention that the new directors appointed by President Carter, David Freeman and Richard Freeman, are attempting to restore to the TVA some of its more people-oriented goals, along the lines of the land reclamation projects of the 1930s. (I did not contend in the article that the TVA had evidenced any commitment to the land in recent year...
This legal pressure is not expected to have much impact on the Greens. They were getting financial support from the National Health Federation, a right-wing California organization that also opposes fluoridation of water, and from private citizens who contend that the state has no business telling parents how to care for their children. With these contributions, the Greens hope to get by while they are in Mexico. "There is such a loving atmosphere here at the clinic," says Gerald Green. "The doctor, after giving us the test results, tells us, 'We'll be praying with...
...productivity been so sluggish? Groping for explanations, economists cite a variety of possible factors, from drug abuse to the doctrines of John Maynard Keynes?which, some contend, led policymakers to pay too much attention to manipulation of total demand in the economy and too little to productivity...
...when it carried out its successful deregulation of airfares last year. Alfred Kahn, as CAB chief, had to deal with only 26 airlines, and some of the biggest backed deregulation, judging correctly that lower fares would tempt more people to fly and actually increase their profits. The ICC must contend with 16,600 regulated truck lines-at least one in every congressional district, truckers like to point out-and most are united in the belief that lowering rates and letting new firms enter the business will not generate more cargo, but only cut profits for everybody. The Teamsters Union stridently...
That will require legislation-either Kennedy's bill or one that the ICC and the Administration are drafting-and it will be hard fought. Truckers contend rate freedom will lead to cuts that will bankrupt small lines, which will be gobbled up by big ones that will then raise rates higher than ever and cut off service to remote towns. A new truckers' lobby called ACT (for Assure Competitive Transportation) has circulated petitions calling for O'Neal's resignation, a demand that Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons echoed in a letter to President Carter in mid-January...