Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actual Cost. One rate-reform concept that is gaining favor is "peak load" pricing. The price of power for all customers, big and small, would reflect the actual cost of generation at any given time of day. Rates would be highest at peak-load times-they vary widely from region to region-when less efficient stand-by equipment must be used to meet demand. Rates would drop late at night and on weekends, when demand is low. Advocates are persuaded that this system would reduce the need of utility companies to spend on costly new capacity and would offer customers...
Last year, Embree set the Harvard record indoors at 7 ft. 1/4 in. in a Channel Five Invitational and he's been improving ever since. He has been jumping seven years (three years less than Stones), starting at his high school in East Lansing. Michigan, and hopes to peak next year for the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal...
...causing potential of OPEC surpluses has been gaining vogue. Several revisionist studies suggest that the OPEC surpluses may not be all that troublesome. The most sanguine of these, a "scenario" published last month by Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., estimates that OPEC's total surplus could peak at $248 billion in 1978, and diminish to $179 billion by the decade's end. The World Bank sharply revised its earlier prediction for 1980 down to $250 billion, expressed in 1974 dollars (that figure does not include inflation, while the Morgan figures...
...most immediate issue at stake between the UFW and Gallo is that the UFW is demanding free representation elections for Gallo's workers. The union has advanced a standing offer to Gallo. The strike will end if Gallo allows such a vote among the peak harvest labor force, conducted by an impartial third party. Yet the Gallo corporation refuses. The justification offered by Gallo, that the "employer is vulnerable to lawsuits and boycotts by the losing union," ("Condensed Report of the Gallo-UFW-Teamsters Negotiations," published by Gallo, 1974), seems rather flimsy in view of the fact that Gallo...
...contract requires the replacement of the labor contractor system with a hiring hall. Under the labor contractor system, the grower requests a set number of workers, and a contractor selects them on an arbitrary basis. Job security is nonexistent (Gallo fires fifteen to twenty workers a day during peak harvesting time). An official Teamster statement says, 'Teamsters condemn all labor contractor, because they are evil corrupt, immoral, inhuman, and barters of souls and human lives." ("Why Does the Teamsters Union Support the Labor Contractor Rather Than the Hiring Hall?" Publication of the Western Conference of Teamsters, 1973). But their contract...