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Instead, five years after the energy crisis hit, the Sisters' power seems unshaken. Politically their clout is reviving: President Carter, who denounced Big Oil on TV only last fall, is now making an all-out effort to sell natural gas legislation that would allow the companies to raise prices and profits. Economically, in the first three months of this year, the Sisters sold 38% of all the oil moving in world trade, about as large a proportion as ever. Rising output from Alaska, the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, where they dominate drilling, might even increase their...
...role. This test has once again been postponed, thanks to the victory of President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's coalition of Gaullists under Jacques Chirac, and of pro-Giscard groups federated in a new party, the Union for French Democracy. After 20 years, the General's regime is still unshaken...
Many legislators argue that McCarney's referendums have cut back progressive programs, like state-supported kindergartens, but McCarney remains unshaken. People, he says, "can't afford to pay more taxes. If something isn't done, it's going to destroy the home, and eventually it's going to destroy America...
...Unshaken Resolve. To survive, the aliens gladly accept lower wages than Americans; their average hourly rate is often one-third or more below the standard. U.S. officials have found farm laborers in the West who were paid $15 a week. Unscrupulous employers threaten to turn over the illegals to the INS if they complain. Kickbacks to the boss are commonplace; migrant workers often bed down in open fields. "We live the life of a concentration camp," says an illegal Mexican in California. "It is cruel here, but one can at least...
...beat by stomping his foot. When the rivals appeared recently at the Dyer County Fair, Brock shook a few hands, then disappeared, without taking a single ride, before most fairgoers were even aware he had been there. Grinning broadly, the shirtsleeved Sasser eagerly took over, leaving scarcely a hand unshaken, delivering a rip-roaring speech-and getting down on his knees to play with the kids. Sasser frequently twits his dignified opponent by referring to him grandly as "William E. Brock the Third" and "the candy man from Lookout Mountain" to underscore Brock's wealth as heir...