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...seems so long ago. But if you think very hard you might remember multi-hour gas lines, odd and even days, and perhaps a siphon burn or two. Those were just a few of the facts of life of the mid-1970s oil crust that gave a real fright to Americans, forcing them to insulate their homes, sell their Cadillacs and pay attention to a faraway group of Arab nations...
Most magazines today are sold in three ways: on newsstands, by subscriptions ordered directly from the publications, and by subscriptions brokered tions, and by subscriptions brokered through agencies. Direct subscriptions provide enough income per buyer to help offset printing and distribution costs. By comparison, agencies siphon off so much of the subscriber's payment that the magazine loses money on each copy. But the increase in readership is supposed to enable publishers to recoup through higher advertising rates. Saturday Review got the bulk of its readers through agencies, said a former editor, "because we wanted to K8 get consumer...
America has also been slow to remove price controls from natural gas. Such restraints discourage energy saving and siphon away profits that the gas industry could use for new exploration. Says Economist Robert Pindyck of M.I.T.: "With artificially low prices, people consume more than they should. They waste...
...they do not miss their professors' absence since they do mostly independent research. One student in Ausubel's lab says he has heard miserable tales from students who felt that they had been neglected, but he adds that he likes the arrangement since the industrial opportunities available to Ausubel siphon down to him. If Ausubel doesn't have time to write a story about his research for a popular magazine, the student says, he often asks one of his students to write it. This activity, the student says, is a good exposure to the benefits of private industry...
...will set a precedent. What will stop it from intervening on the issue of an election--for example, to keep a friendly party in power even after that party has lost a Canadian election? Or to defeat a budget whose policies might prove disadvantageous to Britain? Or to siphon off Canadian resources in order to help a flagging British defense establishment...