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...every barrel of domestic crude that a refinery processes, the company must make a payment into an entitlement pool. The payment raises the price of each barrel of domestic oil halfway up to the cost of more expensive OPEC crude. At the same time, any refinery that imports costlier OPEC crude gets to withdraw an equal amount from the pool. For example, a refinery that buys domestic oil for, say, $9.45 a bbl. would pay about $2.50 to the fund; a refinery that imports foreign oil for $14.55 would then collect that $2.50. Observes Oil Economist Arnold Safer: "The entitlements...
...player permits viewers to skip ahead or back, or to repeat the same 15-sec. segment over and over again. The costlier Magnavox system is more versatile: the action on the 30-min. discs can be run in slow motion or reversed or even held in freeze-frame position...
...savings bond was pronounced dead last week, slipping away to join such other relics of the pre-inflationary past as the 5? candy bar and the two-bit shoeshine. The bonds will continue to be sold through Dec. 31, 1979, after which they will be replaced by a costlier series that will pay the same 6% but have a much longer maturity. The old issue sold for $18.75 and paid $25 in five years; the new one will cost $25 but pay off $50 in eleven years and nine months...
...same time, many city apartment dwellers have skirted the effects of rising gasoline prices-the fuel is almost two times costlier now than in 1967-because they depend on buses and subways. Farmers, small-town folks and suburbanites are not so fortunate, since they need automobiles. But farmers have been able to insulate themselves from stunning increases in food costs-up 117% since 1967-by producing much of what they eat. As a result of Medicare and Medicaid, the elderly and the poor have largely escaped the exploding cost of hospitals (medical-care services have risen 122% since...
...wake one morning this week to find that yet another daily has apparently joined Rupert Murdoch's Post in reaching a separate peace with the city's striking press unions. The 24-page paper, selling for a rather extortionate newsstand price of $1 (the result of a costlier-than-expected union settlement, the paper explains in a frontpage notice), looks just like the Times, only more...