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...which goes to show that in politics, appearances matter more than reality. The natural gas bill is not a panacea, or even a part of one, for American energy ills. All the bill will do is raise gas prices incrementally over a seven-year period, and then lift price controls entirely in 1985. Controlled interstate gas currently sells for $1.50 per thousand cubic feet (MCF), while unregulated interstate runs about $1.95 per MCF; in 1985, the price for all gas will...
...meantime, the slaughter only grew worse. Whites turned their farmhouses into fortresses; blacks who cooperated with the settlers lived in terror of Mau Mau revenge. In the end, only 32 white civilians and 167 members of the security forces were killed by the Mau Mau during the seven-year emergency. But 11,503 guerrillas lost their lives, as did 1,819 Africans who remained loyal to the colonial government...
...York's spirits have risen with the improvement in its economy. After a seven-year loss of 600,000 jobs, from 1969 through 1976, the city gained 9,000 in the period from February 1977 to February 1978. The exodus by large corporations has slowed. Four years ago, whole buildings in prime Manhattan areas were empty. Now 1 million sq. ft. of floor space has been newly rented since January. Says Lewis Rudin of Manhattan's Rudin Management: "I counted up $1 billion-that's billion-of privately financed new construction the other day." He listed, among...
...grew up in Plains, Ga., where her father was a mechanic. He died when she was 13, and she helped to oversee the three younger children while her mother worked. She married Jimmy when she was 18, and he, at 21, had just emerged from Annapolis to begin a seven-year naval career. When they returned to Plains, she kept the books for his peanut and fertilizer business, while raising four children. Throughout, her inner toughness was being strengthened...
...urge Congressmen to extend the March 22, 1979, deadline for ratification of ERA. Without an extension, most supporters fear, the amendment will die, three states short of the 38 needed for ratification. They argue that since the Constitution sets no time limit on the ratification of amendments, the seven-year deadline set by Congress in 1972 for ERA is arbitrary and unfair...