Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prices will induce consumers to conserve energy. But the demand for oil is highly inelastic: price increases do not lead to a proportionate decline in use. From 1973 to the present, the price of home heating oil increased by 184 percent; but instead of falling as the theory would predict, consumption rose 17 percent. The CBO estimates that by 1985 decontrol will reduce current levels of consumption by, at best, a meagre 1.7 percent...
...close." Administration officials were quick to add that the remaining differences could take some time to resolve. The President, for one, was taking no bets on when the talks would end. Said he at a press conference: "After many mistakes, I have promised the public that I would not predict a date for a summit or for the conclusion of the SALT negotiations...
...that, 220 in living-cost payments will be deferred until the three-year contract expires and thus will not be counted. If inflation over the next three years averages not 6% but 8.5%, as the companies and union predict, the increased cost of living payments will swell the settlement to 31.5%. The truckers quickly got permission from the Interstate Commerce Commission to raise freight rates by up to 5.7%, and the industry will seek additional increases...
Some Sugar Snap enthusiasts go so far as to predict that the new, wholly edible pea may surpass the tomato as the American home gardeners' top crop. The Michelin of munchables, All-America Selections, based in Los Altos, Calif., has not just given the Sugar Snap a rare gold medal and pronounced it the most successful new strain it has savored in its 46 years; it has also issued a recipe leaflet (500). Suggested treatments range from creamed Sugar Snap soup to Sugar Snap tempura. Actually, says the vegetable's inventor, Gallatin's lanky. Calvin Lamborn...
...assessment of the suit--filed jointly by the Alert and the City of Cambridge--is an accurate one. What Cambridge is seeing is a redux of the activities of the fall, although this time, analysts in the city predict the suit may actually succeed...