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LAST SEPTEMBER the entire population of a puny but spunky south Texas town had the guts to do what most of us just fantasize about. After experiencing a 600-per-cent increase in its gas bill over the past five years, Crystal City up and decided it couldn't and wouldn't take it any more, and its 8000 residents defied the gas king of south and central Texas, LoVaca Gathering Company. They said no to exorbitant rates, and have borne the consequences. Crystal City has been without natural gas since September...
...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 these prices and to what degree...
...price for tuition, room and board has increased 141 per cent over the past seven years, to $6820, compared with a mere 62-per-cent hike at Harvard...
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...party's campaign against police brutality in Oakland, Cal., resulted in a 95-per-cent reduction of police brutality in that city, Seale said. He added that the group's free-breakfast program also fed poor children before they went to school...