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Washington's crude-oil allocation program has aggravated the trouble. Under it, all refineries are supposed to get enough crude to operate at 76% of capacity. Companies that have more must sell the "excess" at controlled prices to competitors who are short. The intent of the program was to equalize the amount of fuel available to refineries, protect smaller companies with no crude resources of their own and ensure steady production around the country. When the program took effect on Feb. 1, many small-and medium-sized refiners with inadequate crude supplies stopped trying to buy oil abroad...
...complaint criticizes the present lack of uniformity of fuel clauses across the state, and contends that "it is possible for some utilities to charge in excess of their allowed billable fuel costs...
...companies have come in for heavy criticism from Congress, which resounds with cries to roll back surging oil and gasoline prices, repeal special tax benefits that the oil companies get and slap on an excess-profits tax. A few Senators and Representatives are even talking seriously about wholly or partly nationalizing Exxon and other U.S. oil companies...
...canny appeal. Young, as a black for whom a noncom's career is a big step up, makes you feel his sense of risk when he stops going by the book on this detail. Nicholson's bluster only partly masks his insecurity as he moves through the excess of options presented by the civilian world. It is attention to authentic detail by all of them that gives The Last Detail its modest but genuine distinction. Richard Schickel
There's no excess baggage in Cruelty's lines. If anything, there's a lack of finesse--subtlty could get across some of Ai's scenarios even more powerfully than the raw, hard-hitting stuff that leaves you numb and bewildered...