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Carter's program, which resembles the late Vice President Nelson Rockefeller's 1975 plan for a $100 billion Energy Independence Authority, would profit many companies, small and large alike. Any rush to build synfuel plants would bring new orders for makers of steel, drilling-equipment tools and construction machinery. Says Julian Ward, vice president at Houston's Brown & Root construction firm: "Any company with design-engineering and construction capability is going to have a part of this thing-it's so big. The spending would sop up the entire U.S. petrochemical-engineering know...
...Carter's program would have little direct, short-term impact on the economy. It will take time for the biggest construction contracts to be let out, for the huge rail and mining jobs to get under way. Actually building a synfuel plant could require five years or more, and environmental objections and court protests might drag out projects even longer. The size of the spending appears smaller when reckoned at an average $14 billion a year, spread out over ten years. That is a relatively small part of an economy that now produces $2.3 trillion worth of goods...
...literacy test after three tries but were otherwise eligible for graduation. In the first federal court ruling on the new wave of minimal competency graduation requirements, which have been adopted in various forms by 17 states, Judge Carr upheld the graduation requirements in general, but ruled that the Florida program was imposed too hastily. Florida's mandatory literacy test was announced in 1977, while this year's seniors were sophomores. Carr said students should have been told that graduation depended on functional literacy skills "at the time of instruction," well before their sophomore year. Florida, he ordered, could...
...lead to price increases of $4.75 for New York students, who now pay $8.25 to take the SAT. In addition, the frequency of makeup test days and special testing sessions for the handicapped may be cut. There was also opposition to the new law from the American College Testing Program and the Law School Admission Council, whose admissions tests are now subject to New York's new statute, as are medical-and dental-school tests and the Graduate Record exams...
...Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise, Pritikin with McGrady...