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...said yesterday that he made the switch because the newly created position at MGH offered "greater opportunities for long range financial planning." By the end of 1984, the department plans to hire 100 researchers and move into MGH's Wellman Research Building, which is still under construction...
...fears are beginning to surface that cheaper oil will induce consumers to return to their old wasteful habits. The lower price could indeed push consumption up, but worries of a huge short-term surge in demand are unreasonable. It is true that industrial users with burners equipped to switch quickly from gas to oil are doing so. A 1979 Government study suggests that the U.S. could consume an extra 500,000 bbl. per day of oil (a 3% rise in total consumption) if such switching became widespread. But otherwise the short-term response is likely to be limited. Explains Economist...
...best-known attribute, but Uncle Sam is becoming one of the greatest salesmen since P.T Barnum. Switch on a radio or TV set, flip through a newspaper or magazine, and there he is, in one guise or another. Here is the U.S. Postal Service, sniping at Federal Express, Emery, Purolator and other private-sector small-package carriers, boasting that it can do just as competent a job and make mailers "look good for less." Here is the U.S. Army invading the air waves with its stirring jingle, "Be all that you can be," aiming it especially at June high school...
That's something of a switch for RPI. Coach Mike Addesa notes teams used to be criticized for too much emphasis on detense But, he notes, "the qualities of the group we have now make it very scoring minded" It's a relatively young squad, inexperienced in collegiate play and the Engineers Canadian junior league veterans were trained to put offensive skills ahead of disciplined, defensive hockey...
...prices would be foolish because it wouldn't work. The recent history of the auto industry exemplifies the clumsiness of high prices as a mechanism to promote conservation. Detroit continued to manufacture gas-guzzlers long after gas prices soared, as auto executives balked at the massive investment required to switch to making smaller cars. Higher gas prices made consumers prefer more efficient cars, but the cars weren't available until years after the consumers wanted them, and then only after the government required the car companies to improve the mileage of their fleets...