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...bruising fight, and no final, clear-cut victory could be photographed and hung on the wall for our grandchildren to admire. The results will have to speak for themselves; they are already doing so. Our Administration left the country with petroleum inventories at record levels, a natural gas surplus and a fair distribution system for it, more exploration under way for new petroleum than at any time in history and an orderly plan for eliminating unnecessary federal restraints. The rate of growth of domestic coal production doubled, and oil imports and even total consumption dropped rapidly. A substantial portion...
...much of the cost for "retooling" American industry. Enen the most disciplined union will have a difficult time keeping its workers in line if they believe that they're not getting a fair share of the higher profits--or that companies aren't creating enough new jobs with the surplus money. And that is the lesson of the Chrysler contract rejection; in democratic unions like the UAW, rank and file discontent inevitably comes boiling to the surface...
...direction. HSA has continued to move in the direction of "business." It has been pared down from 35 different agencies to the current 11, allowing the group as a whole to operate more efficiently. And since the general manager's appointment. HSA has continually ended the year with a surplus--around $21,000 for the last fiscal year...
...looking long term, at markets ten years and more down the road. A future shortage of domestic energy is inevitable, and I am bullish on gas. All is hardly gloom and doom." Observes Anthony Sousa, a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: "The nation is currently experiencing a surplus of natural gas, but that surplus may prove temporary...
...valve was triggered in Michigan, instantly subtracting 90 days from the sentences of most prisoners. By the end of the year 1,400 will have been freed early. Crowdedness has forced Illinois prison officials to lower their standards for giving "meritorious good time" to inmates. Alabama let out 277 surplus inmates last summer on the order of a federal court. Over the past five years, meanwhile, Alabama's prison budget has quadrupled...