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...order to meet the administration's targeted budget for next year, the History Department is planning an approximate 8-per-cent cutback in teaching fellow funds...
Rising Prices. The full impact of the oil cutback is still unclear, though there is general agreement that the economy eventually will adjust and continue to grow, despite its reduced energy diet, largely because businessmen and consumers will be forced to change their wasteful ways. Moreover, it now seems that the petroleum shortfall will be less than the thoroughly disruptive 3.4 million bbl. per day originally anticipated. Still, the jittery psychological climate created by the threat has enabled oil-exporting countries to raise their prices to towering new levels, and that will further fuel raging inflation in all industrialized nations...
...prison guards were opposed to Boone because they realized that his reforms led to a reduction of prisons and therefore a cutback of jobs, through transferring prisoners away from prisons to community-based corrections. Boone also recognized the prisoners' union (the NPRA), opened the prisons to the media, and was in favor of maintaining some discipline over guards' treatment of prisoners. The strategy of the guards was to picture themselves as the defenders of civil service and trade unions in the state. If their jobs were threatened, all state employees would be vulnerable to reform cutbacks...
...many Britons, the cutbacks mean a dim and chilly winter, with the prospect of massive power blackouts unless there is a wholehearted cooperative effort to turn off the lights and turn down the heat. The new measures will reduce electricity consumption by 20%; an earlier cutback of 10% had already darkened theater marquees and storefronts and cut street lighting by half...
Unless the coal siege ends, the enforced holiday will lead to massive layoffs. The British Steel Corp. plans to cut production 50%; 100,000 of its 250,000 steelworkers will be laid off in the first week in January. As the effects of the cutback spread through the auto, machinery, and textile industries, the layoffs could extend into the millions...