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...mostly a Tory plot. Said he before a suburban audience last week: "What the people want, what every family needs, is a bit of peace and quiet so that they can plan for the future on a basis of real security for the whole family." Repeatedly, he drew the loudest cheers when he told his audience that prosperity would return to Britain on the incoming tides of North Sea oil, which Energy Minister Eric Varley has appraised at $250 billion...
...like anything else, it's the small guy who gets hit the hardest and the big guy who suffers temporary loss whose complaints are heard the loudest...
...loudest catcalls for constructive ambiguity came from British critics of Kissinger who had a heavy stake in Cyprus. But working-level foreign service officers were also vocal in their complaints against his policy. They thought that the Secretary had ignored early warnings that a Cyprus coup might be in the offing, and that, in order to protect negotiations with Greece on home-port facilities for the U.S. Navy, he had not been forceful enough in criticizing the Greek regime. The U.S. confined its public comment on Greece to support of Cyprus' "independence and territorial integrity and its constitutional arrangements...
Some of the business complaints seem clearly exaggerated. Big companies generally have little trouble complying with OSHA rules. The loudest protests come from medium-sized businesses-which have the highest accident rates. Many owners of these firms complain that the cost of obeying OSHA rules could drive them into bankruptcy. But when Democratic Representative Joseph Gaydos of Pennsylvania pressed Richard Berman, director of labor law for the Chamber of Commerce, to name a firm that had been put out of business by OSHA rules, Berman admitted he could not cite even...
Although the game was close and the lead changed hands several times, the lack of a crowd robbed the contest of excitement. The loudest noise of the night was produced by the musical duel between the Harvard and Columbia bands...