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...clothing in department stores to mildew and blood donors to faint." He claims that his alternative-setting thermostats at 76° F, starting air conditioning later, shutting it off earlier and turning down lights-would save 25% more energy than Carter's proposal. Presumably, many citizens will merely resort to a simpler solution: electric fans in summer and space heaters in winter-measures that will hardly aid in lowering fuel bills...
...Then he ran screaming to the beach and told passersby he was going to swim to England "where its beautiful." He tried, but his body was discovered the following night by a bunch of fraternity jocks who were sitting out on the beach drinking by a resort motel...
...House Banking Committee has already approved a less ambitious partnership plan of its own. Its bill, an amendment to the Defense Production Act of 1950, would permit the Government to become the buyer of last resort for up to 500,000 bbl. daily of oil from coal, shale and other alternative sources. That would amount to about 8% of current U.S. imports. For now, the synthetic fuel is too expensive to compete with OPEC crude, but the Government's guaranteed market for the product would encourage companies to invest and get the new industry off the ground...
Godot may or may not be waiting in the wings, but death is always imminent in Beckett. "Earth, the old extinguisher," Winnie says - the last resort for pain...
After a semester of weekly meetings, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) concluded the University should refrain from introducing shareholder resolutions in companies operating in South Africa except as a "last resort." The report concluded that "action" resolutions, calling on companies to take specic steps to further racial progress in South Africa, "seem to us to be relatively ineffective." Some students criticized the report, saying if the ACSR recognized the ineffectiveness of shareholder resolutions, then the logical next step should be divestiture...