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...embargoes on some nations but cut overall production as well. Britain, which is also on the Arabs' privileged list, is receiving 15% less oil than in 1972. Sunday driving bans have spread across the Continent from Copenhagen to Calabria. The Italian government last week adopted emergency measures that forbid the sale of gasoline in jerry cans (to discourage widespread hoarding), put curfews on stores, restaurants, theaters and even television stations, and limit drivers on the autostrade to a rather un-Italian 75 m.p.h. Auto sales in West Germany are down 30% from last year's rate. Happily, there...
Though the U.S. is running short of oil and natural gas, it has enough coal to last for hundreds of years. But environmental laws forbid burning much of the nation's available coal because it contains large quantities of sulfur. When the high-sulfur coal is burned, it gives off sulfur dioxide (SO2), an invisible gas that kills plants, corrodes metals and injures human health...
...more sterile version presents the doctor, a slick young man -- or god forbid, a woman -- punching in at 9:03 and distributing pills all day through a grilled window -- like the post office man and his eight-cent stamps. At 4:58 the doctor punches out and drives out into the suburbs where not even the answering service can find...
...Farah made us work like animals in a prison and thought they had done us a favor by giving us jobs," Lozana said. She said the average hourly wage was $1.70 and described Farah policies which restrict bathroom time and forbid conversation during working hours...
...substantial--certainly it is formidably circumscribed in implication--if, prior to words and long preceding deeds, our yearnings themselves are in such firm constraint that we no longer even wish to do that which, if we could wish it in large numbers, colleges and universities would then assuredly forbid...