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Real Outrage. White's main weapon-something less than a slingshot-is what he calls "the public's healthy attitude of skepticism" about the energy crisis. "The consumer is showing real outrage over the fact that oil companies' profits can skyrocket, while the Administration allows the price of 'old oil' to rise $1 per bbl. [to $5.25]," he says. "Since there is no retroactive expense in pumping from wells already producing, the increase is just a Christmas present from the Administration to the oil companies...
...energy prices skyrocket, some companies are going further and making capital outlays-some minor, some potentially sizable-to save more fuel. Some plants began investing even before the fuel shortage. Four years ago an RCA Corp. cabinetmaking plant in Monticello, Ind., converted its heating systems to burn 30 to 40 tons of its own waste wood daily. Dow Chemical Corp. has cut steam consumption in half at one of its plants, partly by installing a more efficient heat-transfer process. The investment of $44,000 was offset within a year through lower energy bills. Alcoa has developed a new smelting...
...Rhodes's recently-become-controversial scholarships. Harvard managed to change the Brown game from Saturday to Sunday night so Jenkins can be around to guard the Bruins' stringbean leaper Phil Brown. The B.C. contest couldn't be rescheduled and the Eagles' sophomore star Bob Carrington should be able to skyrocket his 20-points-a-game average...
Inflation, caused by rapid changes in the economy, an outflow of capital sent by the rich to havens abroad, and government spending, began to skyrocket in 1972, but the standards of living of the poor more than kept pace. But the middle class was starting to feel the pressure. U.S. trade and aid boycotts added to the problem...
Good Chinese food requires hours of preparation, and as fewer smuggled-in aliens find their way to restaurant kitchens, lovers of Oriental cuisine can expect their eating expenses to skyrocket--and even achieve parity with the prices of a less-interesting European diet. Joyce Chen, who long ago began providing Chinese food to Cambridge students wary of a venture into Chinatown, is leading this drive to respectability and the higher prices that come with...