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...Administration contends that fuel costs to the consumer must go up and business cannot expect to take all the increase in profits. The outcome, so far, is a debilitating uncertainty: the House passed Carter's program almost intact, the Senate dismembered it and no one can now predict what compromise may emerge from the conference committee. Meanwhile, businessmen apprehensively note that polls indicate that Carter has yet to convince the public that there is any energy crisis at all. Says Herbert Schmertz, vice president of Mobil Oil Corp.: "There is no consensus in this country for any energy policy...
Anyway, that brings me to the second reason for writing. You see, I've got a problem, and it's not the type that a bowl of chicken soup can solve. And no, I don't need money. Every Saturday I predict Ivy League football games in The Crimson. What? You haven't gotten any Crimsons this fall? That's funny, because no one around here has either...
...motion picture industry has reverted to its conventional production methods, and work like Short Eyes must once again swim upstream to gain widespread attention. A sleeper must now feature something special to succeed, and Young's new film regrettably comes up short in enough areas to safely predict it will not make much of a dent in the industry, artistically or financially...
...will the Supreme Court finally rule on the Bakke case? Nobody can predict the result with any certainty, of course, but many of the nation's legal scholars expect the decision to go against Bakke. A sampling...
These and other questions apparently did not cool Prince Faisal's ardor for the idea. He went so far as to predict confidently that he would have an iceberg in Arabia within three years. He had already succeeded in delivering a berg of sorts to Iowa, which had not seen one since the last glacier retreated, some 12,000 years ago. To dramatize his plan, the prince spent $5,000 to transport-by helicopter, plane and truck-a mini-berg of clear blue ice from Alaska's Portage Glacier to the conference, where it was chopped...