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Shouting against the windfall profits tax, oilmen tirelessly contend that higher earnings will motivate them to search harder for oil and gas. Sure enough, as oil profits have marched up this year, so has domestic exploration. Steel drilling rigs, eight and ten stories high, are rising at muddy, cluttered sites from the Rocky Mountain foothills to Louisiana's Cajun country. Although domestic production is not expected to rise in years ahead, the new activity will keep it higher than it otherwise might have been. And there is always the possibility, however slight, that oilmen may get lucky and strike...
...result is that characters who ought to be interacting lose touch with each other and finally with the sense of the libretto. The most absurd example is II mio tesoro intanto, in which Ottavio, supposedly at night, exhorts his friends to console Donna Anna while he goes in search of the authorities. Losey sends him strolling up and down a sunlit lawn, singing to nobody in particular, while pausing occasionally to nudge the sleeping form of some peasant sprawled in his path...
...Conference Organizer John Weiss, 24, an activist who a year ago hit on testing as an issue in search of a movement, truth in testing is only the first step. Weiss says he hopes tests will be seen in a more balanced perspective and that alternatives will be developed to replace multiple-choice tests if the current rebellion "takes the halo off the whole operation." To Ralph Nader, the main ill to be cured is "the destruction of the self-confidence of millions of students who incorporate into their own psyches the standards of evaluation set by the Educational Testing...
...song follows. A synthesizer simulates the wailing of Muslim prayer chants, in what sounds like an attempt to parody ancient ritual. Juxtaposed with her notes, Hubbard's piano part on the cut becomes simply a trite rendition of images that have long-ago been worked to death. In her search for a niche for herself, Hubbard, despite her supposed "renaissance," merely recasts old tunes, old images, and old ideas in a new, sucaryled form...
...were willing to express comparable confidence about the country's political future. The question of succession was still unanswered. Acting President Choi Kyu Hah, 60, plunged into interminable rounds of talks with military leaders and key ministers, reportedly in search of a succession formula. The two main contenders for the presidency, former Premiers Kim Jong Pil, 53, and Chung II Kwon, 61, were believed to be trying to drum up support, but thus far strictly behind the scenes...