Word: michaell
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What can Carter do? The 94th Congress gave the President authority to lift all controls on the price of most domestic crude oil effective June 1, a step that would make a trip to the gas station more expensive. At Camp David, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Energy Secretary James Schlesinger urged the President to take such action. But Vice President Walter Mondale and Presidential Counsel Stuart Eizenstat complained that this would be a blow to low-income families. At the very least, they argued, decontrol should be phased in. Nevertheless, a consensus did develop at Camp David that domestic...
...build 'em fast enough." Francis Blackwell, 54, Boston-born executive director of the Maui County Visitors Association, boasts: "We have more millionaires per capita than any other place in the country, including Palm Springs." To which Kapalua Land Co.'s Oregon-born vice president, Michael Gallagher, 36, adds: "How many more rich people can there be in the world? Where can they be? It's frightening...
...BUILD A CASTLE−MY LIFE AS A DISSENTER by Vladimir Bukovsky Translated by Michael Scammell; Viking; 438 pages...
...more magnanimous tutu would surely have thrown in one $500,000 condo and two grilled mahimahi filets. Mo is bettah! Brok'd'moutt! Thank you, Sun! -Michael Demarest...
...anyone else who calls with a question about correct usage. Other such lines have sprung up lately at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Ark., and the Johnson County Community College near Kansas City, Kans. "We get several calls a week from California alone," says Arkansas English Instructor Michael Montgomery. The most common questions concern the correct use of who vs. whom, and which vs. that. The most frequent callers are secretaries struggling with their bosses' dictation. But college faculty members and local magazine editors have also rung up the help fully un-silent Vowell and her colleagues...