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...committees dealing with energy, including Oregon's Al Ullman, head of Ways and Means, who is one of the few lawmakers who think that the proposal for a progressive gas tax will pass. Another key member: Interior's Mo Udall, who favors Carter's program, although he wishes it included one of his favorite goals-breaking up the oil companies. A majority of the 40 committee members will probably back the Administration's bill; less than one-fourth of the members represent oil and gas states...
This is the point that has made Americans, notoriously ignorant of Canadian affairs, take more interest in Canada. According to Henry Giniger of The New York Times, one-fourth of U.S. foreign trade is with its northern neighbor. America has more than $31 billion invested in Canada, more than in any other foreign country, and much of this money is invested in Quebec in mining, forestry, and manufacturing. Would these investments be secure in a fractured Canada...
...survey indicated a second group of 18 courses that approximately one-fourth of the respondents wished to see listed under general education...
Buildings are mostly heated by a central supply system that feeds them steam through underground lines. The main fuel in Russia is-weep, amerikantsy-natural gas, piped from Soviet Central Asia and Siberia. (The Soviet Union has one-fourth of the world's natural-gas reserves, but has instituted a widespread fuel-conservation program nonetheless.) Because natural gas is the cleanest-burning fuel of all, there is no air pollution...
Never has a ski season in the West got off to a more dismal start. Skiing is a $475 million annual industry in the Western snow country of California, Colorado, Idaho and Utah, and resort owners from the Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Nevada count on taking in fully one-fourth of their profits during the holiday period between Thanksgiving and New Year's. Snow normally begins piling up by mid-November, and by Christmas it usually blankets the slopes in layers 40 to 50 in. thick...