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...Pinch the Poor. Lindsay buttressed his appeal to the Governor with what he called four budget options, a kind of fiscal edition of a Chinese menu. The most draconian assumes no restoration of aid or new city taxes; it would call for, besides the elimination of 90,000 jobs, the closing of eight city hospitals, not admitting a freshman class next fall at the City University of New York, and eliminating almost all city-sponsored cultural and recreational services. From there the mayor's options become increasingly more palatable until Option 4, a Utopian dream that has the state...
...five hospitals and more than 20 drug-treatment centers closed, and an end to open enrollment at the City University, which exiting Chancellor Albert Bowker says would in effect close the university. The list underscores the obvious: it is the city's poor who will most feel the pinch of declining services...
WHAT ever became of the great energy shortage? Only a few months ago, headlines sprouted warnings that a pinch on fuel supplies might force winter power blackouts or brownouts, factory shutdowns, possible rationing of oil and natural gas. Now as spring sunshine warms the land, those dark forebodings have either been forgotten or consigned to the list of Great Crises That Never Happened...
...should open its markets to much more oil from Canada, its closest and most reliable ally. Washington has long infuriated Canadians by treating their country as a "surge tank": drawing on it for supplies when shortages threaten, cutting back again when the pinch eases. That policy is economically as well as politically shortsighted. Canada could offer much fuel at prices below U.S. quotes; Canadian crude now sells for $2.75 a bbl. In return the U.S. could offer Canada sales outlets for oil reserves, which Canadians at present have neither the capital nor the domestic markets to develop. Oil wells...
Recipe for a business boom: take the hip lifestyle, add a pinch of nostalgia and stir in generous helpings of Ralph Nader. That unlikely combination has created one of the nation's fastest-rising businesses, the merchandising of organic foods. Basically, these are the foods that great-grandma used to eat. They are grown without the aid of chemical fertilizers or pesticides, and processed without the use of emulsifiers, mold inhibitors, bleaches, preservatives, binders, buffers, drying agents or any other test-tube additives...