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...afford anything, to be honest," protests the town's mayor, John McQuown. "I just couldn't pay," echoes one Ramey resident. Yet Pennsylvania court rulings in similar cases have held that financial hardship is not a valid excuse for polluting the waters of the commonwealth. Is the town doomed then? Not necessarily. "If Ramey can't get a bond issue underwritten, the state can do what it wants, but it is not going to get a sewer system in there," says Thomas M. Burke, a lawyer for the department of environmental resources. "We're just...
...state out of line with the rest of the Eastern Seaboard would disrupt the airline, television and other industries. More over, the action might be ruled a violation of federal law, which permits exemptions only if a state Governor applies to the President on the grounds of undue hardship or energy loss. In the end, the legislature as a whole took no action, but several members of Florida's congressional delegation have introduced bills in the House and Senate to repeal D.S.T...
...Republican appointed to the bench by Governor Ronald Reagan, Ringer acknowledged that his order was, to say the least, unusual. "It will be up to the President or counsel to show it would be a hardship to appear, or to assert Executive privilege," he said. The White House indicated that Nixon would refuse to appear on constitutional grounds, involving either Executive privilege or the separation-of-powers doctrine. But the President almost certainly will respond hi writing...
While millions of people have suffered hardship, corporate profits have exploded under price controls. Business Week reports that, in 1972, corporate profits rose to a record $52 billion, up 12 per cent from 1971 levels. Recently, profits have risen even more quickly: up 31 per cent between November 1972 and November, 1973. Profits in monopolistic firms and industries rose even more rapidly during that period: Exxon, up 86 per cent; Gulf Oil, up 91 per cent; the steel industry, up 89 per cent...
Heath's actions have already caused hardship among Britain's working class, which averages the longest hours per week (44.1) and the shortest vacation per year (twelve days) of any nation in the European Community. Reduced paychecks simply would not stretch to meet mortgage, food and time payments. "One minute we was a normal person," said Birmingham Shop Steward John Joynson. "Now the whole world is turned upside down." The number of emigration applications of Britons asking to leave the country has soared...