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...maximum savings is specious: if the hot breakfast is to be rotated from House to House, as Fox has said he hopes to do, these savings will disappear next year anyway. Starting the cycle in Mather or Dunster would make no financial difference; but it would probably help to offset Mather's other problems, such as overcrowding, an unfavorable sex ratio, and distance from the Yard. These problems are so severe that Fox should consider opening Mather and Lowell for hot breakfasts, instead of Leverett and Quincy, a plan that would require the opening of no more kitchens than does...
...earnings that were not -with the proceeds to be devoted, perhaps, to joint federal-private exploitation of resources that are particularly difficult and expensive to tap, such as those lying under water on the outer continental shelf. The impact of rising prices on the poor could be offset by a system of federal gasoline and heating stamps, similar to food stamps. This proposal was rejected as too cumbersome...
...deserves a couple of critics' stars on guts alone: he has consciously borrowed the impressionistic slice-of-life framework of Nashville and made it work with even less of a plot than Robert Altman's cinematic paradigm. Granted that the basically uncommercial quality of the format has been somewhat offset by the presence of a galaxy of New Hollywood actors; but from a strictly critical standpoint, Rudolph has effectively invited comparisons with his famous mentor that would seem to place his first major work at an almost fatal disadvantage. Yet Welcome to L.A. still manages to equal and even surpass...
Limiting the breakfast menus in eight of the Houses will partially offset the increased costs, saving Food Services $102,000 of the $165,300 projected added cost next year...
Strict guidelines will be laid down to force appliance makers to produce highly efficient irons, hair dryers, refrigerators, electric ranges and the like. In the long run, thriftier appliances will help consumers to offset, at least in part, rising energy costs. Stringent efficiency standards will also be mandated for factory equipment...