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Carter's aides favor freeing up prices but differ on how much, how soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deliberating on Oil Decontrol | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

Each major oil company charges almost exactly the same wholesale price to all its franchised dealers. Exxon's price to its dealers throughout the U.S. varies by as little as tenths of a cent a gallon for the same grade of gas. But the wholesale price can differ drastically from company to company. In Houston, for example, Exxon sells unleaded gasoline to its service stations for 56.9? per gal. and Phillips for 65.1?, while Shell charges 61.8? for its premium unleaded. The oil companies have no control over the price at the pump. That is set by the individual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Inching Closer to $1 Gasoline | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Director Walter Hill does not seem to know much about contemporary teenage hoods. The gangs in his film differ only slightly from the Dead End Kids of the '30s, the Jets of West Side Story, or even the Sweathogs of TV's Welcome Back, Kotter. With a little help from a concerned social worker, these misunderstood kids could probably be college timber. What Hill does understand is the steely textures of urban nightmares. From its opening image−a neon pink Coney Is land Ferris wheel against an inky sky−to its final burst of gore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dead End | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the clothes to be shown in China will differ not a whit from the 200 designs paraded last week for Western buyers and fashion reporters at L'Es-pace Cardin in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Paris Fashions Go to Peking | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Some critics tried to link Taiwan with Israel, claiming that the China decision showed the Carter Administration to be an unreliable ally. But the situations in the Middle East and the Orient differ enormously, and so do U.S. interests in both parts of the world. Moreover, the U.S. stuck with Taiwan-supplying money and arms and maintaining the fiction that Taiwan was China-for nearly 30 years, arguably longer than any other world power in such a situation would have been willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Squall over Carter's Move | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

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