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...first man on the moon and "the last guy at Edwards to take any advice from a military pilot," ignores a warning and sticks his aircraft in mud. Yeager's comment on Richard Bong, a former fighter ace who died because he neglected to switch on a fuel pump: "Dick wasn't interested in homework...
OPEC put off until the fall the touchy matter of how much oil each producer could pump. In October the members agreed on an overall output ceiling of 16 million bbl. per day. Any new plan would reshuffle quotas within that limit, but several countries want their quotas increased. Said Subroto: "The potato was too hot to handle." The point is moot. As demand has dropped off, OPEC members now pump only about 14.5 million bbl. daily because that is all they can sell...
...Saudis would like to cut prices by as much as $2 per bbl. to increase sales to the point where they could pump at least 4 million bbl. per day. In a market with excess supply, that would mean other OPEC members would have to pump less and cut into their own oil revenues...
Though far from elementary, a plausible explanation for the trend can be found in the cyclical swings of supply and demand for auto fuel. Little more than a year ago, the world was swimming in gasoline. As a result, prices at the pump began to fall, and oil companies suffered a profit squeeze. The average cost of a gallon of gas declined from $1.22 in May of 1984 to $1.15 by last January. In response, companies curbed production. At least 18 American refineries closed last year. The cutbacks have reduced U.S. inventories of gasoline by 9%, to 222 million...
...significant step toward greater medical transparency this month when they launched a new website hospitalcompare.hhs.gov that allows consumers to assess the care at any of nearly 4,200 hospitals across the U.S. for three conditions: heart attack, heart failure (a progressive weakening of the cardiac muscle's ability to pump blood) and pneumonia. The site is easy to use and is based on nationally accepted standards of care--although there are a few wrinkles you should know about...