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Cooperating with the new President, Congress quickly passed Carter's plan to ease the natural gas crisis, and he signed it into law-his first. The measure gives the Federal Government the authority to transfer natural gas supplies from areas with a surplus to those where there is a shortage. Just twelve hours after the ink was dry on the bill, the first gas started flowing from the Pacific Northwest through a series of connections to Texas and then on to the energy-starved Northeast...
Although the value of the University's endowment rose to $1.42 billion in 1975-76 and the University as a whole had a $900,000 surplus, energy expenditures and operating costs continue to rise because of inflation, officials said this week...
...controls is bringing in raw materials for export industries and supplies of scarce commodities such as cotton and cooking oil. And, assuming her Congress Party wins the March elections-which it almost surely will-Mrs. Gandhi will have to deal with an unaccustomed problem of plenty: how to distribute surplus food before it rots in the fields...
University officials hope that income generated by fundraising may cancel out the heating costs and produce a surplus, he added...
...consoling to run a budget when things you can't control, such as the weather, determine whether you'll have a surplus or a deficit. It's rather precarious," Kaufmann said...