Word: greats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Douglas F. Francis '80 from Edmonton. Alberta, said he thought it was "a great day for Canada...
...singer has something interesting to say and musical values don't completely dry up. They do, however, at least once on Smith's new album-the title track, "Wave." In a gesture as pretentious as it is self-defeating, she abandons music entirely and presents what Rockwell calls "great acting." That certainly isn't what people pay for when they buy a record from someone who poses as a "rock and roll star"-someone who even sings a cover of the old Bryds track "So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star" on Wave. She tries to elevate rock...
Deutsch hit it off immediately in the United States. "Within a week of being here I was at a youth conference and met Eleanor Roosevelt. I figured that a country like that is a great one. Then I met faculty members who I admired very much. And also, I find Americans the best neighbors anywhere...
...this age of "me-first" politics, it took great courage for President Carter to exercise his authority to decontrol the price of oil. However, his plan to nullify the good effects of price decontrol by imposing a "windfall profits" tax on the oil companies is an ill-considered act of misguided Populist sentiment. We're the Nobil Corporation, and we're in the business of discovering, pumping, refining, shipping and selling oil, so you can believe us when we tell you that "windfall profits" aren't for our benefit, they're for yours...
...seem to feel that profits are evil, and that profits in the hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars mean that the oil companies are taking advantage of the energy crunch to charge outrageous prices for their oil. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Profits built this great land of ours, and high profits are necessary to continue to build this land. New sources of oil cost a bundle to find, and the machinery to get it out of the ground costs even more. Unless our profits are increased still further, we simply won't bother to increase...