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...responsible for PBH's inability to accommodate a number of students is patently absurd; that the committee impede funding because these students could not be accommodated is ludicrous. It is fairly obvious that denying funding to such a program is certainly not going to improve conditions; it can only worsen them...
What Can Be Done? Texas wells produce little industrial oil, however, and there is nothing that Washington could have done to prevent the shortage of heavy heating oil. For the next few months, the energy shortage seems bound to worsen, barring a return of tranquillity to the Middle East, repair of the Syrian pipeline break and a consequent freeing of tanker tonnage. Nuclear-power plants have been delayed by costs, safety concerns and opposition from environmental groups, and cannot be expected to fill much of the energy gap before the early 1980s. In the meantime, if the nation wants...
...related decision last week showed less respect for the states' jury standards and threatened to worsen court congestion. In New York City's criminal courts, there is now a backlog of about 500,000 cases. The backlog would be even worse if a unique statute did not forbid jury trials in these courts. Instead, such cases are tried by speedier single judges or, if the defendant wishes, by three-judge panels. Robert Baldwin, charged with "jostling" (pickpocketing), was convicted by a single judge and sentenced to one year in prison. He appealed, relying on a two-year...
...Congressman from the Delta town of Antioch. "Why then," asks Waidie, "should we increase the pressures on that limited air supply by a governmental policy that will enable barren acres to develop more subdivisions, more automobiles, and more people?" According to Ecologist Watt, the influx of water will worsen Los Angeles smog, which in turn will transform the area into a "death trap...
Powers pointed out that one of the greatest problems of any police force (including Cambridge's) is not being able to educate its officers in community relations and human psychology. A wrong arrest at the wrong time can only worsen the already shaky relations between police and the community...