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...slash of $6.2 billion in other social programs not tied to the consumer price index. For example, Ford would shave $1.4 billion from Medicare through changes in cost-sharing formulas that would require patients to pay more in certain cases...
...Western Europe, which is far more dependent on OPEC supplies than the U.S., would shave imports by only about 8% (to 13.3 million bbl. daily) if oil stayed at $10.80. Yet lower prices would vastly increase its reliance on foreign oil. At $7.20, Europe's oil imports would rise another 21%, to 16.7 million bbl. daily; at $3.60, they would zoom by 71% to 23.8 million...
Many moneyed families are economizing in the hope that whatever turn the economy takes, they will not be forced to shave their philanthropies. Mrs. John M. Bradley of Boston's aristocratic North Shore is concerned that the community will not continue its support for such laudable institutions as Friends of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, of which she is chairwoman, and the Radcliffe College Fund (co-chairwoman). Says Mrs. K. Dun Gifford, a conservationist leader of Cambridge, Mass., society, "I'm not complaining about the family's self-enforced economies: I find all this very healthy...
...years ago, Dartmouth shaved for its first meet of the year against Penn. The Green is not expected to make a major effort like that this year. "Dartmouth is like us in that we are not allowed to stay overnight in sports like swimming," Essick said. "The chance that they would ride a bus three hours and then shave down is very small. But then again, I don't think it'll be as one-sided as last year's meet...
...Midwest and Appalachia. Reclaiming the arid stretches of the West would be more difficult. In the meantime, underground mining, which is the only way to extract most of the nation's 1.3 trillion tons of coal, should be expanded by using advanced technology: machines that continuously bore or shave seams and greatly increase production...