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...under-developed sub-plot of servants and their affairs obliquely satirizes the main plot, but it cannot offset the blunders. Lightning quick changes in character, contradictions swept aside with the wave of a hand, and outright lame poetry seriously mar this work. Given such a weak vessel, the Boston Company can be forgiven much, but their unimaginative and overly simplistic approach does little to salvage this play...
...service station dealers then normally pass these wholesale increases on to their retail customers. The station owners commonly add 10? or more to the wholesale price in order to maintain their own margins. For many stations, these margins are not enough to keep abreast of inflation. Others can only offset a relatively small profit at the pump through their lucrative automobile service operations...
...supplies fall, the price of oil is going up. Though Saudi Arabia and some other OPEC nations have been pumping an extra 3 million bbl. per day at higher prices to offset some of Iran's export shortfall of 5.5 million bbl. per day, the net world loss of 2.5 million bbl. has still started what some oilmen describe as a wild scramble for crude in the free market. Since mid-December the spot price has nearly doubled, to at least $22 a barrel, vs. the OPEC cartel's price of $13.34. This windfall profit for European...
Sophomore duo Dan Menichella and Campari Knoepffler then offset the solid performance of Tiger silver medalist Bill Specht in the 200 butterfly by churning to eighth and ninth, respectively, setting the stage for the final two events...
These efforts, however, were not nearly enought to offset the poorest performances of the year by the Alpiners. According to Alpine captain Tim Hofer, the races were held on the toughest trail the team had raced on all year. "It's the type of hill where team skiing comes into play. A lot of guys aren't used to that," he said...