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...plan for equitably allocating OPEC supplies among the consuming countries, combined with some sort of joint conservation target. Proposals for an outright buyers' cartel to control consumption, much as OPEC controls production, are thought to be too ambitious. A more realistic expectation is a simple extension of the one-year 5% cutback in oil imports pledged by the 20-nation International Energy Agency last March...
...appeared to change after the initial protest. K-School students--many of them mid-career bureaucrats studying areas involving problem-solving--began to debate the controversy through meetings and discussions rather than protest. Their position had initially mirrored that of the undergraduate protesters. But to many students in the one-year MPA program, resolving the controversy within the year became a matter of pride. The K-School students went out of their way to negotiate the issue...
Police spokesmen said most of the demonstrators were charged with criminal trespassing, a misdemeanor with a maximum one-year prison sentence...
This week two powerful members of the House Ways and Means Committee, New York Republican Barber Conable and Oklahoma Democrat Jim Jones, will submit a bill calling for a very similar 5-10 depreciation plan. They have dropped the one-year aspect because it is too difficult and costly to determine what kind of federally mandated plant should qualify; for example, regulations require that elevators be installed in 20-story buildings, but no one thinks they should be written off in one year. The kind of expense on which business would like to have relief was highlighted last week when...
Early in May, Van Andel, 54, the tall, sandy-haired grandson of an immigrant Dutch bicycle salesman, began a one-year term as chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (membership: 84,000 companies, organizations, state and local chambers and individuals). Voted in by the Chamber's board, Van Andel expects to fill his traditionally figurehead role by making speeches and TV appearances, attending White House meetings and testifying on Capitol Hill in behalf of business...