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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are, of course, uncertainties and risks. Though economists are willing enough to guess, none can say with confidence what the ultimate inflationary impact of decontrol will be. Nor is it entirely clear just how much decontrol will increase domestic oil production. By Administration reckoning, the gradual phase-out of controls should encourage companies to pump more and more oil from their wells until, by 1982, production reaches an additional 700,000 to 800,000 bbl. daily (the U.S. now uses about 19 million bbl. per day). That would displace an equivalent amount of imported oil, but energy demand throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Use Less, Pay More | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...decline in black enrollment at the graduate level, down from 256 in 1973 to 183 this year. But the Supreme Court's decision supporting white Medical School Applicant Allan Bakke has discouraged protest. "Sign carrying would be sort of after the fact now," says one Stanford student. "I guess we'll just have to see how the new plan works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Looking Out for No. 1 | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Brown went on. "We came off a big sweep of Navy over the weekend, and then got that big win from (Jim) Keyte yesterday, and I guess we were just a little tired today. I know I was. But hey, the mark of the good team is that it can win the games it should never lose...

Author: By Bill Schefi, | Title: Batsmen Bag B.C. With 10-5 Drubbing | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

UNDERGRADUATES CAN EXPECT "the great unveiling," as some Faculty members have aptly coined the announcement of the 1979-80 Core Curriculum, within the next few weeks. Dean Rosovsky's Standing Committee on the Core will soon finish approving courses for next year. But students can only guess what lies beneath the veil. The committee, under Rosovsky's direction, kept the development of the courses under wraps. By maintaining maximum security on the committee's proceedings, the committee has ensured that students play an insignificant role in creating the Core Curriculum...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Exposing the Core | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

...other side, no question about it," says former Army Staff Sergeant David Harker, who was imprisoned in the camp for 16 months and is now a probation officer in Lynchburg, Va. "He collaborated. He took special favors. I don't know if traitor is the right word. I guess I'd call him a crossover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Last P.O.W. | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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