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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Club executives estimate 15 people have left the organization since Marvin took over in September. "Statistically, the number is higher than ever," Adam M. Finkel '79, Glee Club secretary, said. "We've personally tried hard to find everyone's reasons for dropping out... We're not in any trouble, though, and we're not hurting for people." Wheadon, however, said the number of dropouts this year is not excessive. "We generally accept a certain number of people keeping in mind that by spring tour we want to have a group of about 50," he explained...
...nothing more than to tart up a few British ceremonies." But the antidevolution forces, led by the Conservative Party, mounted a late-blooming campaign that focused on an even more basic Scottish instinct: they charged that the cost of home rule would be quickly felt in the form of higher taxes. Some Scots also began to ponder the fact that devolution might lead to the breakup of the United Kingdom, which none but the most extreme nationalists want...
...failed to honor its contract commitments. But no serious moves have been made in that direction. Instead, at week's end, Ashland Oil Co. disclosed that it too had grabbed up a load of Iranian crude, and at a price that the company would only describe as "somewhat higher" than prevailing OPEC charges...
...prices will go much higher than that if OPEC's prices also keep climbing. The run-up has already sparked fears that the entire cartel, which only last December announced a general 1979 increase of 14.5%, will soon declare yet another boost in order to keep from breaking up in a mad scramble after ever higher prices. As if to sanctify the money grab, OPEC headquarters in Vienna announced that individual price adjustments by members were perfectly all right "in light of their prevailing circumstances...
...minimum to a halfpoint jump in consumer prices because oil is used not only for fuel but also as a raw material in chemicals, synthetic fibers and many other products. Rising fuel charges also will prod workers to demand more pay, which businessmen will pass on in higher prices. And as more dollars flow abroad, the greenback's value will tend to slump against other currencies, and Americans will wind up paying more for imports. The impact on the U.S. trade deficit, which last year reached a record $28.5 billion, will also be severe. In January alone, the deficit...