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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rules require 400 pages of DOE instructions. Allocations are expressed not in gallons but as a percentage of what each individual customer, wholesaler and retailer, received in a given base period. What base period? Well, it can differ from customer to customer. The oil companies must work out not only how much they supplied each customer in the same month of last year but also how much they supplied, on average, in a five-month period from October 1978 to February 1979. If the latter is at least 10% higher than the corresponding month last year, then it becomes...
...names the priority customers, like farmers, but makes no attempt to change the list quickly or to check that the customers really need what they ask for. Farmers, long after spring planting has been completed, can simply say that they need so many gallons, and the local distributor must supply that amount. The result is oversupply and hoarding in agricultural areas...
What can be done? Obviously the countries that already accept significant numbers of Vietnamese refugees-the U.S., France, Australia and Canada-should increase their quotas, and other nations must quickly be added to that unnecessarily exclusive circle. Japan, for example, has admitted exactly three Vietnamese as permanent residents and, under pressure from the U.S., is now willing to let in as many as 500. China has taken 230,000 refugees so far, but is reluctant to take more. The U.S. had hoped to encourage the Soviet Union to lean on the Vietnamese to ease up on their ethnic Chinese minority...
Crane Beach is also one of the most expensive beaches in America. The only place to park is on beach land, and to enter the parking lot, you must pay $4.75 per car on weekends, $3 on weekdays. The hot dog stand is inconspicuous and confined to the parking lot; there are no American flags...
Capital funds spent for such renovations must be approved by the Board of Overseers, Wilson said...