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This year, the poor will need much more extensive subsidies than those now planned by the government. The price of home heating oil has doubled in a single year due to the lifting of price controls and the OPEC price hikes--the government's response has been shockingly inadequate. President Carter and Congress are leaving this year's relief effort to the Community Services Administration (CSA). But the $1.2 billion Congress is appropriating for the CSA's Emergency Crisis Assistance program will only provide each family below the poverty line with $400 of aid for the winter, enough...
...first time I played baseball as a total sport," he said yesterday in his Norwood home. "It was like a job," he pauses, then remembers, "It was a job and I was like an apprentice...
...government's failure to respond quickly to the home heating oil crisis dramatically points up the dangers of a piecemeal approach to the broader energy crisis. In addition to a comprehensive plan to ease the crisis on the supply side of the energy equation, immediate attention must be paid to easing American demand...
...plan to cope with the home heating oil crisis should do more than provide woefully insufficient stop-gap measures to help poor people pay their utility bills. It should also be part of a national effort to encourage all Americans, not just the poor to conserve energy. Such a multi-faceted program would include such as measures as the following. The Department of Energy estimates that any homeowner can cut his energy consumption by 25 to 40 per cent with an investment of $60, spent on water flow restrictors for faucets and showers, insulation for water heaters, caulking for doors...
...season indicates, Brown had little trouble making the jump from college to the pros. "It's completely different," he said. "You didn't have to think about a take-home hourly or getting up early the day of a start." And the rumors of miserable treatment and slave wages in the bush leagues? "I got some bonus money and it was a minimal salary. When you're playing baseball at this level, you're not playing for money. The big thing to me is playing. I'm in no rush whatsoever to make money...