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...Choice. Other critics of the bill contend that the main impact will be felt by small strip miners in Appalachia, who cannot afford the reclamation costs, or by consumers, whose electric bills could rise as much as 15% because utilities would either buy more high-priced oil to substitute for lost coal output or pay more for coal itself. Some electric companies, in fact, may not even have a choice. Last week the Government announced hearings on whether to order nine Midwestern utilities to use coal as fuel instead of oil or natural gas. Before the Government's authority...
...love to beat Dartmouth" said Yellin. "They should be psyched out at the Easterns." The Big Green is one of the top Eastern clubs the Crimson will have to contend with...
Critics of the dam point out that it has obstructed the natural flow of silt that enriched the soil of farms along the Nile. Thus it has been necessary to increase the use of imported chemical fertilizers on farms downstream from the dam. Environmentalists also contend that elimination of the silt flow has increased the rate of erosion along the Mediterranean coast adjoining the Nile Delta. In addition, they claim that the absence of the organic matter in the silt in the waters at the river's mouth has deprived sardines and shrimp of an adequate food supply...
...also debate whether death itself is now a constitutional form of punishment. Citing evolving standards of decency, the large number of "civilized" nations that have abandoned executions and the fact that the penalty in the U.S. falls disproportionately on blacks and other socially rejected groups, Legal Defense Fund lawyers contend that the death penalty has become barbarous. North Carolina replies that since 31 states have moved to retain the capital sanction since the 1972 decision, the court cannot substitute its judgment of what is barbaric...
...officials contend that they have found little evidence of criminal intent on the part of suppliers in cases settled so far. Most of the overcharges, they say, resulted from confusion and varying interpretations of the Government's complex pricing regulations. But FEA and other federal agencies are also pressing a rapidly widening hunt for possible criminal violations of the oil price controls passed by Congress in November 1973. U.S. Customs Service agents, for example, are poring over import records in 35 U.S. ports, checking for inaccurate or incomplete entries on tanker manifests and invoices by more than 40 companies...