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Along with Lou Reed and Blondie and eventually The Sex Pistols and Elvis Costello--plus a whole new wave of bands from The Ramones to The Clash--Patti Smith brought home a new message, and it had nothing to do with war or the draft...
When technical hiccups occur, the whole global system often begins to tremble and twitch. Example: just as U.S. refinery capacity was being strained by the demand for gasoline, Exxon was hit in late March by a freak fire at its Bayway Refinery in Linden, N.J. The accident has knocked out some 160,000 bbl. per day of refining production until at least June. That has kept the company switching around tankers on the high seas, sending them to other refineries in a desperate rush to make sure that every drop of crude is refined in a hurry...
...Monopoly Subcommittee and the Foreign Relations Committee, and now a frequent critic of the Oil Game's international accounting and tax methods: "We have reached the point with the oil companies where the foreign tax credit is being abused on a scale that no one had imagined. The whole scheme is now simply subsidizing foreign imports...
...this year it expects to sell 1,000. Cable-TV gear accounted for 75% of the company's 1978 sales of $94 million. Jerrold Electronics in January booked three tunes as many orders for decoder boxes and other cable equipment BRIAN R. WOLFF as ft did in the whole fourth quarter last year. Its sales of cable gear have multiplied 4½ times since...
Tory proposals to get tough with the unions are another potential minefield. Admittedly, British trade unions are inflexible and old-fashioned. So is British management. It is at least arguable that management's perpetuation of a "Them and Us" syndrome through a whole host of class-based divisions--ranging from the most trivial policies like separate eating places for management and labor, to a refusal to allow any German-style worker-director or incentive-involvement schemes--is largely responsible for Britain's appalling labor relations, and not the so-called leftist shop stewards that the Tory press loves to attack...