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...Carter and Congress are leaving this year's relief effort to the Community Services Administration (CSA). But the $1.2 billion Congress is appropriating for the CSA's Emergency Crisis Assistance program will only provide each family below the poverty line with $400 of aid for the winter, enough to pay one month's heating bill. This unreal level of aid leaves poor people with the macabre choice of whether to freeze in December, January or February...
...plan to cope with the home heating oil crisis should do more than provide woefully insufficient stop-gap measures to help poor people pay their utility bills. It should also be part of a national effort to encourage all Americans, not just the poor to conserve energy. Such a multi-faceted program would include such as measures as the following. The Department of Energy estimates that any homeowner can cut his energy consumption by 25 to 40 per cent with an investment of $60, spent on water flow restrictors for faucets and showers, insulation for water heaters, caulking for doors...
However, students will have to pay to work on a new Digital VAX 11 780 machine, which will be ready for use next week, Law said...
Builders are in trouble too. On construction loans, they generally pay 2 points above the prime interest rate that banks charge their top corporate customers. That means builders are paying 16½% interest, vs. 15½% only two weeks ago. Various charges may bring the effective interest rate to a towering 20% by the end of the year. Builders will start fewer houses and charge more for them. The National Association of Home Builders figures that the average price of a new house, now $64,000, will go up $1,000 by Dec. 31, and the combination of price increases...
Even some of the "defensive research" is starting to pay off. Last week the 3M Co. introduced a lithograph printing plate that uses nonpolluting tap water instead of chemical developers to produce an image. General Motors' new zinc-nickel oxide battery pack-which can be completely recharged 300 times and will power a car for 100 miles-cost $33 million and took ten years to develop, but it has now opened up for the first time the possibility of a practical, mass-produced electric...