Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...windfall profits tax that would over the next decade save consumers billions of dollars by recovering some of the excess profits. He has, for the most part, missed that opportunity. We now can only hope that most of his proposed tax plan will remain intact as it winds its way through Congress...
John M. Phillips '80, one of the two juniors who registered, called the exam a "no-loss proposition." He added, "If you're a non-honors concentrator and it's merely a pass-fail grade, if you can get it out of the way...
...SENSIBLE WAY to encourage conservation is to attack the causes of high consumption: for instance, uninsulated homes and offices, huge investments in highway systems, and utility rate structures that reward large energy consumers. Higher prices have proven themselves an ineffective and costly method of forcing conservation...
Next, proponents contend that decontrol would increase oil production. But decontrol is a very inefficient way to increase oil production. While, as one expert put it, "smaller and smaller increments of hard-to-get oil are produced at higher prices, such marginal increases do not justify trebling or quadrupling the price...
...much more cost-efficient way to increase oil production would be with tiered pricing regulation, which would allow oil companies to charge higher prices for oil that had not been produced without that incentive...