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...next day after Carter's surprisingly sunny forecast, White House aides tried to dispel the impression of presidential zigzagging. Fielding calls from politicians across the country, they insisted that Carter had not meant to imply that the overall gasoline squeeze was over. In fact, even when U.S. stocks of crude oil inch up to 1978 levels, as expected by July, they will fall short of demand by about...
...Phillips Academy, Andover, and to Yale, where he made Phi Beta Kappa, before moving to Texas in 1948, where he later helped found and run the Zapata Petroleum Corp. Bush promised last week to reveal his income taxes for the past five years and his net worth "to dispel the notion that I am a rich Texas something-or-other." He is rich enough. Bush sold his oil-industry holdings in 1966 when he was first elected to Congress, but his net worth is estimated at upwards of $1.3 million...
...that he sees the guru as but a means to find one's inner guru. "He is like an ice cube in a cooling drink. He cools your consciousness and then disappears," Chitrabhanu writes. One's devotion belongs to oneself, not to any teacher. Gurus--the word means "dispeller of ignorance and bringer of light"--can be anyone, regardless of race or sex, who helps one dispel the darkness and ignorance of his life...
...weeks been promising a forceful message on energy by the President, the timetable kept slipping as he struggled to get the Egyptian-Israeli peace pact nailed down. Yet when the speech finally came, it more than lived up to the advance billing. In blunt terms the President sought to dispel the notion, reflected in polls, that most Americans feel the oil problem is somehow phony. "The energy crisis is real," he emphasized. The nation's dependence on foreign oil, which now supplies nearly 50% of the U.S.'s needs, up from 36% in 1973, has left the country...
Many students are now wondering whether administrators may be "misleading" them on other aspects of the housing process. Therefore, the Administration must not only remedy what is at least the potential for manipulation, but dispel these student suspicions. The House assignments, if they are still to be done manually, should be witnessed by members of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life. CHUL overseers would prevent any more "mistakes," the more suspicion of which has undermined the integrity of this supposedly random process and the deans associated with...