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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences this week did its bit to ensure a cutback in its January fuel consumption by extending the Christmas vacation until January...
Leslie E. Thomas, manager of utilities, expressed optimism that his crew and PEP could meet the 28-percent cutback and further reductions that are anticipated in coming months...
...have been successfully playing off one nation against another in the hope of preventing any coordinated retaliatory sanctions. After Common Market foreign 2 ministers issued a self-consciously pro-Arab statement in Brussels, the Arabs last week exempted all Common Market members except The Netherlands from a further 5% cutback planned for December. West Germany sent envoys to Saudi Arabia in search of an arrangement that would allow oil destined for Germany to pass through embargoed Dutch ports. Other governments are preparing to ask for their own private deals when Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani swings...
Because New England electrical power is primarily generated by oil burning, the energy crisis has forced the voltage cutback. However, several companies affiliated with NEPEX have started purchasing coal in anticipation of converting their generators to coal if federal air pollution controls are relaxed...
...voltage cutback will probably only cause heating units to warm up slowly, dimmer lights, and other minimal effects, J. Norman McKenzie, the spokesman for NEPEX, which supplies 95 per cent of New England's electrical power, said Thursday...