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...people campaign, its success has not shaken many Congressmen. "We admire a virtuoso performance when we see one," said Republican Representative Barber Conable of New York State. "We sure know he can frost a cake. The question is whether he knows how to bake one. When the real crunch comes-energy, trade, cutting the budget-that's when we'll see whether Carter can turn his popularity into votes up here...
...sure, there have been rumblings, louder each year, of the coming crunch. Natural gas shortages threw more than a million adults out of work, and about a million youngsters out of school, for brief periods during the bitter winter just ended. Power shortages might well close factories and schools and black out homes in the Pacific Northwest next winter, because a prolonged drought has curtailed hydroelectric power production and utilities have not built enough coal and nuclear power plants to take up the slack...
...administration will try to devise programs to help the middle income families who feel "the real crunch," Rosovsky said...
Whatever the difficulties, however, this winter's natural-gas crisis is making a powerful point: the energy crunch has plainly arrived, and neither Canada nor the U.S. can afford the kind of wrangling among special-interest groups that held up construction of the Alaskan oil pipeline for nearly four years...
...examination and solution of specific problems like that of Publisher Ginn-several of the schools favor other systems. Chicago is known as a "theory" school where students learn general concepts, then apply them to specific cases. Carnegie-Mellon and M.I.T. are strong in statistics and math; their students could "crunch the numbers." Wharton is reputed to produce hard-nosed decision makers-bottom-line types. Cornell, which uses a combination of the case-study and theory methods, was clearly the underdog. Said Team Member Dick Tushingham: "If we are simply perceived as having achieved parity with the other schools, we will...