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...stiff tax on gasoline [Dec. 20] to force conservation! Refuse from a horsebarn floor! Deregulate the price of domestic oil. Result: more revenue for our own oil companies as an incentive for increased domestic production, less dependence on foreign oil, and an inducement for conservation...
...sale of preferred stock has rebuilt its depleted reserves, the company is likely to go on shrinking for a while. GEICO is still losing policyholders it wants to keep; some are failing to renew because they distrust the company's finances, others because they will not accept the stiff premium increases. GEICO sells homeowners' insurance as well as auto policies-and some mortgage lenders are demanding that householders switch to richer insurers as their GEICO policies expire. Counting the policies already taken over by other insurers, says Byrne, "well probably lose 1 million" of the 3 million policyholders...
...street and shoot windows out on both sides." He seldom missed, but the affection and the accolades that came his way never turned his head. He belonged, he once said, to "the dirty-fingernail set as opposed to the folk heroes of TV. I'm a working stiff, a shoe-leather...
...earlier loan from the Group of Ten (industrial nations). Britain's creditors, including Arab sheiks and international bankers, have grown increasingly skeptical about its ability to pay its way. Thus, after Whitehall applied for a loan in September, the IMF decided it was time to impose stiff requirements as a condition for its investment...
With a cast this large, there are bound to be disappointments. The biggest one is the casting of Peter Knapp as Richard Rich, Cromwell's servile protege. Knapp is too weak, even for the part. Alan Stock as More's son-in-law is also a bit stiff, and Stephen Hayes as King Harry is ridiculously miscast--he looks...