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Data Resources, Inc., a Lexington Mass., consulting firm, has worked out-what impact oil-price rises of varying sizes would have on the U.S. economy Its computer studies indicate that a 10% hike would have only a "marginal" effect, because the nation still has price controls on almost all of the oil that it produces. A 25% boost would lower real gross national product by .7%, or $9.1 billion, by the end of 1978-enough to slow the recovery measurably...
Pearl Robertson Lexington...
Maureen E. Kelly Lexington, Mass...
Farmers are furious over the bans. "They've taken away the insecticides that really do the job," says Steve Pfister, a Lexington, Neb., corn and alfalfa farmer. But entomologists and some farm experts feel that in the long run, less dependence on pesticides will be beneficial to the farmer. Many scientists believe that the introduction of pesticides like DDT, which promised easy pest control, actually intensified the problem by encouraging the abandonment of such traditional?and sound?agricultural practices as rotating and diversifying crops and adjusting times of planting to avoid insect infestations. "Insecticides have failed not because...
Scheer and Rankin's historic bridgework is as skilled as their choice of quotations. Recollected events and human voices carry the reader from the first shots (and words) at Lexington in 1775 to a chorus-like finale at Yorktown. Flashes of humor and high spirits lighten the hardships along the way. Washington (on inflation): "A rat in the shape of a horse is not to be found at this time for less than ?200." A very young officer to his wife, after the battle of Princeton: "Oh, my Susan! It was a glorious day and I would not have...