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Some Canadian economists note that the proven Mackenzie Delta gas reserves are not now large enough to justify Canada's proposed 50% share of the program's cost. And settling claims with the Eskimos and Indians whose ancestral lands the pipeline would cross could cost billions of dollars. "This is essentially a project to transport Alaskan gas to American consumers," says McGill University Economist Eric Kierans...
...high prices of gasoline continue to bedevil shoppers despite last week's lifting of the Arab oil embargo; and Watergate has produced a morbid epidemic of doubt about the country's future. "Inflation is no longer the sole reason for pessimistic expectations," says University of Michigan Economist Jay Schmiedeskamp. "At least half of the gloom comes from Watergate and the energy crisis. The Government plays a large role in the economy, and the people have lost faith in the Government's ability...
...less, at low Government-mandated prices. Rather than do so, FEO officials believe, some oil companies slashed imports. Some Government officials complain that weeks passed between FEO'S discovery of a decline in imports and Simon's decision to order needed changes in the program. One economist at the Council of Economic Advisers grumbles, "There was great reluctance to bite the bullet...
...women and ten men; 17 are blacks and six whites; only eight members are less than 40 years old. The dominant member is its foreman, Vladimir Pregelj, 46, who was appointed by Judge John Sirica. A native of Yugoslavia and a naturalized citizen, Pregelj (pronounced Pray-gull) is an economist for the Library of Congress. When the jury members asked President Nixon to testify before them, Pregelj wrote the request. Nixon refused to appear, and Pregelj planned to keep a photocopy of the reply as a historical memento. Carefully he placed it in a newspaper to take home -only...
Best Addresses. Kuwaitis and Saudis are also buying feed lots, agricultural land and New York City office buildings, almost all at the best addresses in town, such as Wall Street and Fifth Avenue. Raymond Jallow, chief economist of the United California Bank and himself an Iraqi, says he knows of several shopping centers and office buildings that Arabs have bought in California, ranging in price from $1 million to $10 million. Dr. Jallow expects such investment to increase "twentyfold in the next two years...