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Harvard received one of the largest of the 20 grants HEW awarded. The funding comes from a 1977 amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1965. The Association for Research Libraries lobbied the House and Senate appropriations committees for passage of the amendment, Williams said...
...have to choose between gasoline at a higher price with no waiting and no bribes, or gasoline at 900 per gal. in one-to two-hour lines two to three times a week, I will choose the former...
...Prices. Despite statutory limits on prices and profits at the retail level for gasoline, the agency's own regulators admit that as much as half of the gasoline sold today is priced higher than the law permits. With only 400 inspectors to police 225,000 gasoline retail outlets, enforcement has been futile. This week the department will increase the legal profits retailers can collect. Thus stations, some of which have closed down in protest, may be able to raise prices another nickel a gallon...
...with the Soviet Union would require increasing strategic spending, now $10 billion a year, to about $12.5 billion. But, he insists, without an accord, the Pentagon budget for strategic weapons would have to spurt to as much as $16 billion a year. Said he: "There would be more weapons, higher costs and probably less security-for both sides...
There was about the best of them a crazy energy-part libidinal, part desperately inventive, as their makers sought to keep belief alive despite the strictures of the budget. And mind, this leaves aside discussion of higher levels of creativity that have occasionally been placed in Dracula's service: the stylish camp of the 1977 Broadway production, from which this film has borrowed Frank Langella for the title role, only to tune him down; or the wonderful expressionistic grotesqueries of that marvelous silent, Nosferatu...