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Watt's basic plan for leasing the Outer Continental Shelf has been known for more than a year. Late last month he approved a "revised" version of the leasing scheme, offering 25 times the offshore area that has been available for exploitation since the program began in 1954. Seven conservation groups, as well as the states of California and Alaska, have filed suit to prevent or modify the expansive scheme...
...direct investments in the country. Japan's Suzuki Motor Co. is expected to pay $70 million for a 25% share in Maruti Udyog, a nationalized automobile company. Chevron International Oil Co. has agreed to invest at least $27 million in three exploration wells on India's continental shelf, an area that was formerly off limits to foreign companies. India currently meets about 55% of its oil needs from domestic production, and it hopes to boost that figure...
...food, and did not attempt to compensate for lost calories by snacking more. They lost an average of 8 Ibs. during their time on the SPE diet, and, as a bonus, their serum cholesterol levels dropped 10%. How soon will SPE be on your grocer's shelf? Not for a long time, if ever. Though no serious side effects were reported, SPE is "potent stuff," says Dr. Charles Glueck, who headed the study. The compound has been classified by the FDA as a drug. When it becomes available, several years from now, it will be sold by prescription only...
During seven off-seasons- as usual, the hard way- Yastrzemski earned a business-administration degree at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass. He has a long-term contract with Kahn's meat company and delivers presentations on various meat products to buyers who have shelf space. When Yaz is on the shelf, how will he take it? "The only time I've ever reflected about it was this year at the first Oldtimers Game ever at Fenway Park. I think twelve of the oldtimers were younger than I was. You don't have time to reflect, there...
...perish miserably of thirst' . . . It took a full week-end before the last of them had found his way home." White analyzes the philosophy of fishing in a style that Izaak Walton might envy, and his descriptions of dartboard arcana and Welsh superstitions belong on the shelf alongside Dickens. Another, smaller book could be made of his observations: "The stomach is really the basis of nationalism." "The infallible test for a gentleman is to drop in on him unfed, and see what he does about it." "Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad." Only one aper...