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...gasoline, which rocketed up at a 55% pace. The new OPEC boost may doom Administration efforts to wrestle the figure down below the double-digit range this year. Directly it will kick the prices of gasoline, heating oil, diesel fuel and the myriad products made from petrochemicals yet higher; indirectly it will nudge up many other prices?apartment rents and foods, for example...
Inflation, already at double-digit levels in the U.S. and climbing rapidly in many other industrial nations, will go still higher. Economic growth will slow to at best a crawl, and unemployment will grow, in the U.S. by perhaps as much as 1.4 million in the next twelve months. In short, for the second time in a decade, the threat of an OPEC-induced global slump is imminent...
...price of gasoline has doubled and may soar higher...
...higher court upholds the earlier ruling, I would consider it a moot point and say any more challenges would be futile," Sullivan said...
...confirmed by other labs, and when it comes to humans it is no more than anecdotal. But there are a few provocative bits of information. Among medical workers who are around anesthetics regularly-and thus presumably take in some of the gases-there seems to be a higher rate of spontaneous abortions and birth defects: these findings apply to the males who father the children as well as the mothers. This week, at a National Foundation-March of Dimes-sponsored Birth Defects Conference in Chicago, Dr. Louis Bartoshesky of Tufts-New England Medical Center is scheduled to discuss the case...