Word: vastness
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Sugar has been a sticky problem for Congress for years. As the world's biggest importer (11 million tons a year), the U.S. used to control its vast imports by doling out quotas to exporting nations. That system broke down in 1974 when the price of sugar shot up, partly because of crop failures, to a record 64.5? per lb. Overproduction then sent prices dropping again. By the time Carter took office, they had fallen to about 10? per lb., some 3½? below the break-even point for domestic growers. Recalled Agriculture Secretary...
...distributors want to "roll in," or average out, the higher priced imported LNG with the price of domestic gas, currently held by federal regulation to $1.48 per 1,000 cu. ft. tops. That would hold down the price somewhat, but force the vast majority of customers who will not burn imported gas to pay part of the cost of supplying LNG to those who actually use it. That is indeed the basis on which the first LNG imports have been sold, but Energy Secretary James Schlesinger has denounced the plan as constituting a subsidy for imports. He favors "incremental" pricing...
...this decade, the challenge of this once and future form has attracted a vast legion of artists, students and collectors. In the U.S. there are now 5,000 professionals working in glass and, according to Patrick White, president of the St. Louis-based Stained Glass Association of America, at least 100,000 hobbyists; ten years ago there were fewer than 100. The output of artists and amateurs is becoming highly visible in offices and stores, schools, courthouses, chapels, restaurants, apartment buildings and homes. The pieces may be room dividers, skylights or side lights, bathtub screens, doors, windows or-most significantly...
...attacks by street mobs. The top management of a French heavy-machinery company in the Paris suburbs changed the locks on their factory doors to prevent a lockout by workers. Commercial transactions were being carried out mainly on a day-to-day basis, with immediate payment demanded. In the vast government ministries, the bureaucracy meandered, as decisions were postponed until after the elections...
...this spring should be an interesting one: from the looks of this semester's course list, the vast majority of Harvard students want to romp with the Australopithecines, sympathize with the mercy killers, sail the seven seas, or simply have an easy time...