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...week that the Administration might ask Congress to increase the federal tax on gasoline, though he stressed that no firm decision has been made. Most estimates put the proposed hike at about 50 a gallon, which would more than double the present 40 levy. That big a boost would siphon about $5 billion in additional tax revenues out of the economy and produce a budget surplus in the 1974 fiscal year, starting July 1. Such a measure would meet formidable opposition in Congress. But a gas-tax hike is only one of the Administration's fiscal alternatives. Another option...
...marketing consultants, store owners believe that at a time when the makers of most alcoholic products stress lightness, calling a new drink "light" does nothing to distinguish it from, say, Canadian or Scotch whiskies. Liquor dealers are unsure whether a new light drink will bring additional business or merely siphon sales away from older labels. As a result, light whisky is often stacked willy-nilly among bourbons and rye blends on the shelves so that buyers come across it only by chance. With their fuzzy image, the lights have failed to attract young people, who continue to down vodka...
Frame is also an anti-McLuhanite. "Where the written word allows us to siphon off small doses of death," she writes, "the image in the moving picture does not even wait to invite us, it abducts us to the scene with the result that we have a collection of ungrieved-over deaths in our storehouse and a scarcity of feelings to match them." A dead Turnlung can elicit feelings because he endures as a body of poetry...
...demonstrations. Other protest areas, all bordered by a new $24,000, 6-ft.-high chain-link fence decorated with hibiscus, have been set aside in front of the hall. Youth ombudsmen and housing counselors will be on duty; the Democrats will sponsor a country-and-western music night to siphon off tensions...
...Yugoslavs also fear that Moscow will exploit their internal quarrels, chiefly the one between the Catholic Croats and the more numerous Orthodox Serbs. The Croatians, whose territory includes the lucrative Dalmatian coast, have been complaining that the Serbs used their influence in the federal government to siphon off Croatia's tourism riches for use in other republics...