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...largest savings will have to come from a combination of more tax incentives for buying home insulation, wood-burning furnaces and other oil-conserving devices, and much stiffer mandatory conservation rules. A number of innovative companies, including Du Pont, A T & T and General Motors, have reduced their energy use relative to their output by 17% to 30% since the Arab oil embargo of 1973; yet many more firms have gone on giddily wasting energy. Consider the beneficial effects of a 20% surtax on the commercial use of electricity: skyscrapers that are lit up all night long and advertising signs...
However, the winners of the Greater Boston Championship and Big Three Meet (between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton) during the indoor season will find even stiffer competition outdoors this spring...
Except for a change to a stiffer and longer pole, his style has remained more or less constant, although the Eliot House senior did have to make some adjustments since the short runway in Brigg's Cage cut more than 35 feet off his approach...
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Acosta's generosity ended at 20-19, however, enabling him to clinch his first open tournament victory. Last night he said the competition in the Cambridge tournament was stiffer than what he had faced in the NCAA Championships the last two years (he placed fourth in '76 and fifth...