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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mutter about drawing up a blacklist of their own, perhaps to refuse to deal in the spot market with OPEC countries that will not honor their legally binding contracts. Said Clifton Garvin Jr., chairman of Exxon: "It is our belief that we should not buy oil at present high spot market prices." Others do not seem so confident. Last week Royal Dutch/Shell, a major customer of Iranian crude before the ouster of the Shah, was back in the loading queue for a new supertanker cargo at an undisclosed price...
...service stations are now self-service operations, but the minority of dealers who offer full service tack on a few cents a gallon for pumping the gas, checking the tires and wiping the windshield. Many station owners still try to hold prices down in order to achieve high volume. "Rocky" Minetti, who manages an Esso station in Pittsburgh, maintained his price of 64.9? per gal. for unleaded right up to the end of last week, while ether stations in his area were charging...
...their margins in 1973. But the formulas are complex, the nation's 250,000 service stations are tough to police, and many owners are marking their gas up to levels well above their individual federal ceilings. Fines for those gougers who fail to post prices properly are as high as $10,000 per day for each violation, but last year only about a dozen operators throughout the country were penalized by the Department of Energy...
Doctors concede that this kind of fraternal "charity" hardly seems appropriate any longer for a group with such high incomes. But a more telling criticism of professional courtesy is that it can be a barrier to good medical care. For one thing, the donor physician often feels exploited and overburdened. Says Pediatrician Lee Bass, Wolfson's partner: "There is a subtle difference in how you feel about people who get free care in your office and those who pay." Also, doctors and their families frequently have misgivings about taking up another doctor's time. The result: quick, inadequate...
...famed Behaviorist B.F. Skinner, who has managed such unlikely feats of animal training as teaching pigeons to play Ping Pong. Encouraged by Skinner, Willard decided to turn to primates as aides for the paralyzed because of the animals' grasping ability. She settled on capuchin monkeys. Only 1% ft. high, they have long been used by organ-grinders, are highly intelligent, far more malleable than larger monkeys, and can live up to 30 years...