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...Pullman (pop. 21,000), students from Washington State University jammed the Barley and Hops tavern for "eruption specials," $1 pitchers of beer. In Yakima, which was coated with half an inch of dust, the owner of an auto body shop jokingly put ash on sale for 500 per gal. but got no takers. Hosing or shoveling the ash was only a slightly more effective way of getting rid of it. Complained Yakima Mayor Betty Edmondson: "Wet ash turns into a slurry that is just about impossible to shovel...
Buddy, can you spare a dime? Apparently not when it is added to the already steep price of gasoline. Ruling on a suit to prevent Jimmy Carter from imposing a 10? per gal. conservation fee on gasoline, U.S. District Judge Aubrey Robinson Jr. concluded that the President had exceeded his authority. If the decision is not overturned on appeal, Carter's already battered energy program will suffer further damage. In addition, the loss of $10.3 billion in anticipated revenues from the fee will tip the precariously balanced fiscal 1981 budget into...
...last month, a group of 94 unaffiliated dealers calling themselves Ohio Independents for Survival filed a complaint with DOE'S Office of Hearings and Appeals. After a speedy review, the department ordered Sohio to raise its prices 100 per gal. to more nearly equal the prices charged by the independents. Top White House officials, worried about the impact the ruling might have on Ohio voters in that state's June 3 presidential primary, expressed their displeasure to DOE. The department then quickly overruled the Office of Hearings and Appeals decision and reversed the reversal. It is now considering...
...customers, they and drivers all over the nation will face a new price increase this week. The gasoline conservation fee announced by President Carter in March is scheduled to hit the pumps about May 15. The fee would raise the cost of gasoline at the pump another 100 per gal...
Those who have been annoyed by such mannerisms in the past may find them less objectionable here. They not only convey the period that Hellman strains to retrieve, but their tough-gal veneer is offset by the sadness and vulnerability of the woman within...