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...that reason, retrospectives have an automatic edge over group shows. Unity is built in, whereas multi-artist conglomerations often contain "representative" pieces by artists whose works have nothing more in common than the walls on which they hang...
...Europe, only Britain, which has consistently backed the U.S. in the Afghanistan crisis, expressed immediate support for Carter. With Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher nodding agreement, Deputy Foreign Secretary Sir Ian Gilmour declared in the House of Commons: "We and our American allies will use all possible measures to contain this [Soviet] threat." A West German Chancellery official complained that Carter's "warning about the Gulf states could have been made more subtly. A lower, very steady tone would be better than stridency." Many foreign diplomats in Washington agreed. Said a French diplomat who represents the Common Market: "Carter's rhetoric...
...problems with that plan. Carter's request will have a tough time passing Congress, which set the 20% requirement last year to make rationing only a last-ditch action. Also, details of an emergency rationing plan are not expected to be ready before this autumn. It will contain many exemptions that the public will consider unfair; for example, people with company cars stand to get considerably more gas than ordinary drivers. The sad result of all this: the U.S. has neither a consumption-cutting gasoline tax nor a workable and effective rationing program to fall back...
...nation can be a totally self-sufficient island, the U.S. has little choice except to build safe stockpiles of those essential materials, such as chromium and manganese, that are found in quantity in only a few countries. The mineral-rich American West, Alaska and the oceans bordering the U.S. contain vast unmined natural resources that hold the longer-term promise of more domestic sufficiency and security. These minerals often remain in the ground or under water because of ecological concerns or the higher profits that firms can earn abroad. Steep mining taxes in Minnesota, Montana and other states have also...
Most of the action in silver futures seems to be focused on two commodities exchanges, the Chicago Board of Trade and the New York Commodity Exchange. The New York exchange alone currently has futures contracts outstanding for 155 million oz. of silver, but its warehouses contain only about 70 million oz. Warns Jack Boyd, vice president of New York's Drexel Burnham Lambert brokerage firm: "The ownership of the contracts is concentrated in only a very few hands, and there seems to be a definite indication on the part of the contract holders to want actual delivery...