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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Murton's reforms worked for a short while. "You could argue that I made things worse for the inmates," he says, "lighting a candle to have it blown out. As people said, start a band, then they want dances. Let 'em out of their cells, they want out of prison." But ultimately the reforms upset the politicians and exposed the system." As Murton says, smiling, "It worked. That's why it failed...
Just how prolonged and how severe the U.S.S.R.'s energy gap will prove to be is a subject of widespread discussion. The CIA, in a controversial and criticized report in 1977, predicted that the Soviets would have to start importing petroleum before 1985. The CIA updated that study last year and said that Soviet oil output could fall as low as 8 million bbl. in 1985. If this view is accurate, the Soviet Union will soon have to halt its lucrative oil exports, including 129 million bbl. to such Western nations as Italy, West Germany and Austria. Last year...
Alexander Krylov, a top Soviet oil expert and a member of the Academy of Sciences, has predicted that "national oil output will peak in a relatively short time and then start to fall." Yet other energy experts in both the East and the West are more optimistic about Soviet potential. Leading Kremlin officials insist that their country will remain a net exporter of oil and natural gas for the next 50 years. Economist Marshall Goldman of Wellesley College maintains in his book The Enigma of Soviet Petroleum: Half Empty or Half Full? that the Soviets will actually increase production...
...boat might have placed higher in the senior eights final had the race not begun before the Radcliffe shell was ready. Coxswain Meg Ziegler said afterwards that although the crew plied extra hard to make up lost ground, their opponents' premature start hindered the crew's chances...
After a miserable start this season, caused mostly by anemic pitching, the Sox are back on track and will probably pose a threat to the streaking Yanks before the campaign concludes. The starting pitching trio of Dennis Eckersley, Bob Stanley and Mike Torrez at one point possessed a combined record of 3-13, but has recently gone 9-3. Rice and Burleson have regained their hitting strokes, temporarily missing in action. Fisk has rebounded from the latest in a series of debilitating injuries, while Lynn, Remy and Perez have provided impressive offensive production. Following the onset of an unsettling cynicism...