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...world's reserves* of grain have reached a 22-year low, equal to about 26 days' supply, compared with a 95-day supply in 1961, according to Lester Brown, a leading U.S. food expert. Low harvests and high prices have forced the traditional surplus-producing nations to curtail the amount of food that they normally give as aid to the hungry nations. For example, unless the U.S. adopts an expanded program, American aid this year will drop 50% in some categories. Sales of food are also shrinking. Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, Burma and the Common Market nations have restricted...
Snow Job. Sampson had altered that proposed budget to curtail the unsupportable $100,000 allocation for miscellaneous expenses. In seeming exchange, however, he added a $110,000 item for a special vault to house Nixon's tapes and papers at Laguna Niguel, within 20 miles of San Clemente...
...coordinate research and development of alternate sources of energy and agree to guarantee profitable prices to people who produce, say, oil from shale or tar sands; 2) work out a common program to build six-month stockpiles of oil and share imports among themselves if the exporters again curtail or shut off supplies; 3) agree that they will not try to get the cash to pay for oil by unduly pushing exports to and curtailing imports from each other; 4) especially important, develop coordinated programs to conserve energy. If the world continues to increase energy consumption by 5.6% a year...
...England was one of the areas of the country most severely hit by the winter energy crunch--schools were closed, cars were locked in the garage, thermostats were lowered and all of us had to curtail many of our activities. But, for all the inconvenience and suffering, Harvard escaped the crisis with relatively few disruptions. Despite the financial implications, the energy shortage has helped teach the University something it would do well not to forget: the meaning of austerity and efficient utilization of available resources...
...week ago, the likelihood that the cultural center would have to close down or severely curtail its operations was the cause of great dismay among members of the center's executive board. It now appears, however, that the center is assured it will be able to maintain a meeting place at least for the coming year. Whether the center will have the economic wherewithal to continue its present staff and range of programs remains an open question...