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...motorists who confront the prospect of a summer of gasoline shortages at $1 per gal.; homeowners who have visions of dollar bills fluttering up the chimney every time the oil burner in the basement trips on. Angry and resentful, people are blaming the one institution that not only grows richer every time there is an oil squeeze, but is as close at hand as the nearest service station: the $360 billion-a-year U.S. oil industry ... All around the U.S., the lament is the same: in ways both devious and sinister, and too mystifying to understand, Big Oil is somehow...
...Excelsior, you can’t get any richer, but you can rest assured that not all of the patrons have just stepped off the runway...
Everyone knows that the rich get richer. But not every day does the Government disclose how it happens. Last week the Treasury Department issued a report showing that in 1983 some 55,000 taxpayers with incomes exceeding $250,000 paid a lower percentage of their income in federal taxes than the average middle-income family of four. At least 1,900 of these high earners paid...
Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout: Repeat after me: there are better stouts than Guinness. Besides a slick ad campaign and nitrogenating capsules in each bottle, bottled Guinness has little going for it. On tap, Guinness is richer. Bottled, Guinness loses the rich chocolate and smoky tastes it is known for. Pub Nights should offer a non-mass produced stout that is nonetheless smooth and accessible to the casual beer drinker. Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout stands out here. In contrast to Guinness, this oatmeal stout attacks your senses. Its rich chocolaty aroma gives way to strong...
...possibilities for non-elitist, non-competitive fun will probably leave much to be desired. Maybe Harvard students are unhappy because they spend too much time at home, that is, at Harvard? Go out into the world, or at least to Boston, and your college experience will be richer, although you might not remember as much of it the next...