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...Final Crunch. The lull in the energy crisis has been the result of two developments for which governments can take no credit: a succession of mild winters and the global recession of 1974-75. Both held down fuel consumption and tended to obscure a frightening fact: in the long run, the world is going to run out of oil. Known reserves may well be nearing depletion before the end of the century, sending crude production on an irreversible decline-and before that point is reached, demand pressures will push petroleum prices to confiscatory levels, threatening economic chaos. So current consumption...
...coming exam crunch...
...attempt to avoid a lunch crunch was inspired by an exceptionally large expected student turnout at today's game. Gordon M. Page, manager of the Ticket Office, said yesterday that 8000 tickets have been sold to undergraduates and their guests...
...course has been packed ever since the financial crunch of the early '70's, and is as crowded as it was during the early '60s when John F. Kennedy '40 kept emphasizing economic policies in his state of the union speeches...
...hate to complain in such an uncontested issue as the inconvenience of buying textbooks on the first day of the term, but your reporter misquoted me in the article "The Crunch Begins," [Sep. 28], if only by one word, and it makes all the difference in the world to what I told him and to the intention of his article...