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...matched by commensurate political influence in the central government. The Westerners served for decades as a captive market for high-priced manufactured goods from Eastern Canada. Now that they have come into their own, oil-producing Alberta and Saskatchewan are resentful that the Trudeau government has claimed a slice of their petroleum revenues to subsidize the price of imported oil, on which most of Eastern Canada depends...
...tape reductions. To make it easier for important new energy projects such as refineries and pipelines to come on-stream without years of delays, regulatory hearings and appeals, Carter signed an Executive order setting strict deadlines for processing applications. He also said that the Administration would take action to slice through the bureaucratic barriers that have bogged down plans by Standard Oil of Ohio for a pipeline to carry Alaskan oil from California to Texas. The pipeline would enable some 350,000 bbl. per day of Alaskan oil to reach Eastern markets, thereby displacing the need for an equal amount...
...want a slice of pizza." --Last public words of Sid Vicious...
...some delicious hot coffees--big mugs of capuccino, cafe au lait, and mocha mit schlag grace their dessert menu, which changes every day. The chocolate seven layer cake was a little dry, and the caramel topping was harder than a candy apple. For something a little lighter, try a slice of their white butter-cream cake with almonds...
...Comic Albert Brooks' first feature is not as dark as Interiors, but neither is it designed as a hoot. What Brooks has wrought is a scrupulously honest satire: a film that sacrifices compulsive jokiness in the effort to reveal the nasty truth about its subject, TV's slice-of-life documentaries. Real Life is funny when it wants to be and stubbornly thoughtful the rest of the time. By refusing to pander to the crowd, Brooks puts a healthy distance between himself and such recent comics turned film makers as Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder, and Cheech and Chong...