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...dime a gal. In any case, three facts are most significant. First, a free market unquestionably would reduce demand by raising the cost. Second, the price would still be lower in the U.S. than in any other industrial nation except Canada. Third, the Government could use taxes both to skim off any "windfall" profits and to compensate lower-income people, who might otherwise be hurt by higher gasoline costs...
...prevent handing what he sees as an unearned bonanza to the oil companies, Carter called on Congress to enact a "windfall profits tax." It would skim off about half the $13 billion or so of extra revenue that oil firms stand to get as the price of domestic crude oil, which now averages $9.45 per bbl., rises to the world level. At the moment, that figure is $14.55 for OPEC oil, but Ecuador is now charging a premium price of $20.60 per bbl., and other producers are also levying surcharges on the basic OPEC price. Under Carter's plan...
...trying to put together a magazine that can be both read and skimmed," says Gutwillig. Though the editors show a deft touch with short text blocks, few readers are going to be able to skim the three longish articles offered: a 5,400-word account by Syndicated Columnist Robert Novak of his November interview with China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, as well as the two cover stories on Rockefeller and Hearst...
...Orleans Philharmonic, he had moved upward, through the conducting ranks of the orchestra he will now head. He is an inventive programmer who likes little-known American works and singles out the less popular symphonies of the major composers. Slatkin's weakness, musicians feel, is his tendency to skim the surface of music and his awkwardness on the podium. Still, he and St. Louis know each other intimately and should grow together...
...When we concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation," said Vladimir Nabokov, "the very act of attention may lead to our involuntarily sinking into the history of that object. Novices must learn to skim over matter if they want matter to stay at the exact level of the moment. Transparent things, through which the past shines...