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Bennett's proposal hit a gusher. More than 2,300 teachers from 41 states applied for 225 places in the program. Since nine teachers were rejected for every one accepted, the competition was about as stiff as winning a place in the freshman class at Harvard or Brown. The university professors who taught the seminars made the final selections. "We had about 40 applicants who were on the same level academically as the 15 we picked," says Karl Galinsky, chairman of the classics department at the University of Texas in Austin; he sought the aid of a local high...
...most notorious confusion of all surrounded a Core course called Literature and Arts B-16, "Abstraction in Modern Art." Like a horde of wildcatters racing to the site of a gusher, some 600 students (roughly a tenth of the undergraduate population) descended upon the Fogg Norton Lecture Hall, hoping for a spot in the survey course...
...right to explore for oil on a single 5,700-acre offshore tract in the Santa Maria basin off Point Arguello, Calif. Now that money looks like the down payment on a bonanza. Last month Phillips and Chevron announced that a test well had brought in a gusher, and expectations were heightened by several other successful drillings near by. Then last week Texaco confirmed the existence of a major oilfield by announcing crude flows from an 8,500-ft. well. Experts now say that the Santa Maria basin could be the biggest single find in the U.S. since 1968, when...
...dependence on foreign oil once commercial production begins in 1986. The effects of the discovery may be felt as early as next month's meeting in Vienna of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. According to Oil Analyst Dan Lundberg, editor of the Lundberg Letter, the offshore gusher could lead to more unofficial price cutting by dissident OPEC members, weakening the links in the powerful cartel...
...regional pride has been wounded and our heating bills have soared higher than a Texas oil gusher. Now that other states' aquifers have been sucked almost dry, they look to our Great Lakes for water.Never, I say! Let them eat their desert sand and drink their petroleum reserves...