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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fuel multiplies its consumption four or five times above present levels in less than a decade. The Senate has voted the Administration less authority than it wanted to order plants to switch to coal, and Carter's plan to grant tax breaks to industry in order to spur conversion to coal use may not prove to be sufficient; the legislators would do well to vote more financial...
Joseph F. Savage Jr. '78, Quincy House CHUL representative, said the influx of interhouse patrons might spur some Houses to restrict interhouse at lunch...
Frightened by El Paso's "all-American" project, the Canadians, who did not want to lose the jobs that pipeline construction would bring, dropped a request for immediate construction of a spur to Mackenzie Bay. California did not want the liquefied natural gas tankers from the El Paso project off-loading in its ports. Besides, according to Government projections, the El Paso gas would be costlier to the consumer. Even so, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger estimates that Alcan gas will cost the U.S. consumer about $2.50 per thousand cu. ft., about twice the price of present domestic...
...Government's guarantee of a $250 million bank loan, and ever since has been in almost continuous negotiation with its bankers to arrange credit. The company's reputation was almost ruined by disclosure that up to $38 million in questionable foreign payments was made to spur sales of its aircraft; the scandal involved Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands and former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka of Japan, among others. To top it all, Lockheed's effort to re-establish itself as a principal supplier of commercial aircraft has been a disaster...
...executives that they need to make their voice heard on Capitol Hill. Though some experts trace the speedup in business lobbying efforts to 1973, when AFL-CIO President George Meany's call for election of a "vetoproof Congress prodded corporate leaders into action, all agree that the biggest spur was the election of Jimmy Carter. Says the N.F.I.B.'s Motley: "With Ford in there we could count on vetoes...