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...told [Harvard], 'Look, I'm not a wonk. I'd rather pump around in the discussions,'" Simpson said. "But I have to play the game; so I'll assign a book list...
...galore will be hitting the road. Nor will the 700,000 bbl. a day that Baghdad will be allowed to sell to raise hard currency for food and medicine amount to more than a 1% boost in worldwide oil production. Nonetheless, experts say Iraqi oil should help lower U.S. pump prices by midsummer. Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, estimates that gas prices could fall as much as 10' per gal. before the end of the driving season...
...nearly 40% lower than after the last embargo's price peak in 1981. Thanks to these bargains, Americans slurp as much oil as ever. In France, Germany and Japan, meanwhile, a gallon of gas costs more than $4. Taxes there account for 50% to 80% of the pump price. Here, by contrast, federal and state taxes together average 38 cents per gal., less than 30% of the price. Thanks in part to their policy of high-priced gas, our industrial competitors have made stunning strides in energy efficiency and independence. In Japan the high cost of oil imports...
...Pacific Telesis and SBC Communications (ne Southwestern Bell), confirms that the Baby Bells have hit their Terrible Teens. Now, 12 years after the Federal Government broke up Ma Bell, deregulation and the digital era have transformed the info-delivery business. Cable companies will offer phone service, the Bells will pump Stallone flicks down your phone lines and satellite moguls will do battle from...
...created a few decades ago, some argued that it should not exist at all. Many, most notable among them Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, felt that more money should flow to the house committees. These opponents believed that Harvard needed to revive house life rather than pump funds into an artificially-created central government...