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...After a quiet power struggle over the past year, Harvard dining hall workers have wrested negotiating power from their 81-year-old business agent in Boston, a man who first organized at Harvard in the late 30's. The cooks are asking for a 50-cent-per-hour pay hike...
Tuition money is especially valuable to the Faculty because it is unrestricted; room and board income goes directly to the departments that feed and house students. By January, bargaining with various departments had produced a $340 tuition hike--$40 over last fall's forecast--and a total fees increase...
...nothing but "drift, dawdle and debate" on domestic energy policy. The President theatrically tore leaves off a calendar to demonstrate that he had been waiting since February for some sort of energy legislation. He then announced that he would go ahead with his own controversial, twice postponed plan to hike energy costs in an effort to curb demand and make the nation less dependent on foreign...
...that deregulation would eventually kick up the price of gasoline, residual oil used by heavy industry, diesel fuel burned by trucks and other petroleum products by 5? to 6? per gal. The increased tariff will add another 1½?. Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington claims that the tariff hike alone will boost consumer prices by $2.5 billion a year. The measures are particularly punishing for New England, which imports and burns relatively more oil than any other region; they could add as much as $250 million a year to the area's fuel bill...
...energy that would make the industrial world independent of the oil cartel. Yet, as Kissinger conceded, there is nothing that the consuming nations can do in the next several years to prevent oil producers from raising prices whenever they want to. Indeed, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries may hike world prices by as much as $2 per bbl. in September-a move that would give the American economy a vicious double jolt if Congress and the President let all U.S. price controls die a month earlier...