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...depict Dixy Lee Ray as a charming, inoffensive goldfinch is singularly inappropriate. A better choice would have been a grizzly bear-and with a sore...
...mills investing in antipollution equipment. This proposal would be included in the tax plan that Carter will send to Congress next year and would apply to all heavy industry. But the stiff cost of installing air-and water-purifying equipment required by the Government has been a particular sore point to steelmen...
Personnel is a sore point between the two groups. Last September the Independents led the passage of a residency requirement for Cambridge teachers. Residency is not a prerequisite for job application under the law, but hired teachers must move into the district within a year...
Genesis is another potentially sore spot for Christians. If there's one thing most non-Christians at Harvard hold sacred, it's Darwin. Yet "born again" Christians have doubts. Donovan says the literal truth of the Adam and Eve story doesn't matter. "What matters is that man took his own path and departed from God." This is the source of the world's current misery...
...seems to get quite as sore when other industries achieve such profit increases. But the aftertaste of this episode has inspired the industry's critics to charge that the oil companies have made price gouging a way of life. Moreover, it is a fundamental reason why both President Carter and his Energy Secretary, James Schlesinger, continue to insist that the oil companies cannot be trusted to put the nation's interests ahead of their own. They argue that domestic oil prices, which are today set at a Government-regulated price of about $8.52 per bbl. as a result...