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...quite a remarkable week for James Earl Carter Jr. At its outset, the President heard that the wavering Senate might inflict a shattering blow to his prestige by rejecting the Panama Canal treaty; the next day it gave him instead a narrow but important victory. On Thursday fell the mournful first anniversary of the introduction of the energy program that Carter had once called the moral equivalent of war; the following day came news of a Senate compromise on gas deregulation and at last the possibility of a breakthrough for the energy program. On the economic front, the long grounded...
...Midshipmen found themselves floundering from the outset, as the Crimson submarined them with five quick singles victories to cinch the outcome...
Sally Hyde, Fonda's character, is also a bit overdrawn. At the outset, she is an incredibly naive, submissive spouse to the Marine career man. She doesn't seem to have changed much since high school, where her yearbook inscription read: "What is the one thing Sally would want on a desert island? A husband." Gradually, awakened by her experience in the veteran's hospital and by the feminist roommate she moves in with, a new consciousness emerges. She sheds her prudish dresses and skirt outfits for jeans and imported shirts, becomes increasingly anti-war, and eventually falls in love...
...outset, it is questionable that any incentives will significantly increase exploration for gas. There are no provisions in the bill requiring that the profits made from the looser definition of "new gas" be reinvested in exploration. And also, these corporations, making enormous profits now, and more in the future, have little need for incentives. In 1976 they made $9.2 billion in profit, a 93-per-cent improvement over 1972, and they achieved an average return on their investments of 14.6 per cent--substantially higher than most other industries. Carter's question was again to the point: "Who will profit from...
...Harrington's concluding proposals for concrete change--his "agenda" for achieving greater justice--are the weakest part of the book. Although he has warned from the outset that his agenda would be much harder to formulate and much less complete than his critique of the existing system, it remains a severe disappointment...