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...deciding whether to switch from oil to gas, owners must place the potential saving against the cost of conversion, which can be substantial. The cheapest way to change over certain types of oil furnaces or boilers in good working condition is to pay $800 for the instal lation of a gas burner. But often conversion means spending $1,200 for a new gas furnace or $1,900 for a gas boiler. Moreover, customers whose houses are far from streetside mains have to pay to have a gas line installed...
While Americans agonize over the lation's real or imagined woes, many people from far off are raiding their savings accounts, borrowing money, taking their business profits and betting on the future of the U.S. Not since British loans helped finance the building of the nation's canals and railroads in the 19th century has the U.S. displayed a more magnetic attraction to overseas investors. Foreign money from almost everywhere is flooding into co-op apartments in Manhattan and Miami condominiums, sprawling petrochemical complexes in Houston and quaint dairy farms in Vermont, suburban shopping centers and downtown office...
There is a needful move afoot, meanwhile, to revise legis lation covering foreign investments so that such investors would be made to identify themselves more clearly than they have up to now. This would certainly be helpful in establishing whether or not OPEC investors were acting as individuals, or as representatives of governments, who are less desirable because of the political implications behind their holdings. This legislation is especially necessary in order to insulate U.S. foreign policy - particularly in the Middle East - from petrodollar pressure...
...door and I said 'That's an elephant,' someone would say, 'That's an inference. It could be a mouse with a glandular condition.' " There were sharp personal exchanges as the commit tee grew restive. Latta irrelevantly criticized Counsel Jenner for having publicly supported the repeal of antiprostitution legis lation, and Latta in turn was scolded by Ohio Democrat John Seiberling for his improper remarks...
...Thousand Cranes (1959). Which is to say that this most Japanese of Japanese writers remains somewhat obscure to Western readers despite his 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature. His fiction seems to be most valued in Japanese for those qualities that are most difficult to render in trans lation: precision and delicacy of image, the shimmer of haiku, an allusive sad ness and minute sense of the impermanence of things...