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...record indicates, Dartmouth hasn't seen much action this fall. Harvard has five meets and a tournament behind it. The Schedule it has faced to date has been stiffer than Dartmouth...
Nations would then be tempted to take unilateral action to get the funds they need to pay OPEC. Through subsidies and dumping, nations would drive all-out to increase their exports; meanwhile, through stiffer tariffs and quotas, they would wall out imports. Such a mercantilist policy could lead to a tragic rerun of the 1930s, when most of the industrial nations were intensively trying to "beggar their neighbor." The result was a disastrous contraction of world trade and paralysis of the international monetary system. Thus the answer to the crisis created by high oil prices, conclude Simon and Kissinger...
...users of fuel oil were allocated only enough to heat homes to 68°, and reductions of several degrees were made in plants and office buildings, the saving would be 250,000 to 300,000 bbl. a day. If users of natural gas and electricity were penalized with progressively stiffer rates for usage over 90% of their last winter's consumption, that would free more energy supplies, and another 200,000 to 400,000 bbl. of oil could be saved...
...dealers. In The Netherlands the maximum term is four years, but judges usually hand down sentences of only a year or so. Laments Inspector Cor Elbersen, head of the Amsterdam narcotics squad: "The drug traffic came to Holland because the sentences are lighter. I'd like to see stiffer penalties, but I'm tied by the laws of this country...
...1960s, became a civil rights activist and antiwar crusader. By using the long-ignored power of his office-secretary of state-to implement campaign reform, he soon began making a name of his own, most recently by launching a well-publicized investigation into President Nixon's tax returns. Stiffer than his convivial father, he is nonetheless winning strong support as an outspoken reformer...