Word: leveler
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U.N.C.'s suit, filed by Washington Attorney Charles Morgan, is a basic challenge to all HEW desegregation efforts in Southern colleges and universities. Morgan, a former American Civil Liberties Union counsel, told a U.S. district court in North Carolina that the state has "a higher level of desegregation than most other institutions of higher education North and South." Last fall its predominantly white campuses had a greater percentage of black students than Harvard (6% vs. 5.02%) and the State University of New York (5.2%). At U.N.C.'s Chapel Hill campus, blacks in professional programs such as medicine...
...bigger benefit of decontrol will come from increased domestic production. When prices are free to climb to the world level, domestic output is likely to rise as companies pump more oil out of existing wells that are now uneconomical to keep on stream. The battle between Carter and the oil industry over his windfall profits tax concerns whether decontrol will also lead to increased exploration and drilling of new wells that will raise production. The President has repeatedly hit the industry with the charge that oilmen will just pocket the profits from decontrol. Even under existing price controls, however...
...possible of the increased profit that will begin flowing to the industry at the end of the month, when Jimmy Carter starts phasing out domestic crude oil price controls. As a result of controls, the average price of crude in the U.S. is $9.45 per bbl., vs. the world level of $14.55; removing the ceiling will increase oil company revenues by perhaps as much as $ 13 billion over the next 28 months...
...Turkey and many other countries. Fears are rising that sooner or later some borrowers will not be able to afford even their interest payments. The threat is not simply of defaults leading to instability, but of worsening hunger and unrest among the world's more than 1 billion subsistence-level people...
Only two years ago, oilmen were confident that the Saudis would steadily boost production, to as much as 20 million bbl. a day by the early 1980s. A Senate report three weeks ago concluded that the West will be lucky if the Saudis achieve much more than half that level over the next eight years. They have been shaken by the experience of Iran, where the social strains of rapid industrial development brought on revolution. The royal family is split between moderates eager to expand