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Cleveland must pay off $111 million in debts and has announced it will lay off 214 employees in January. "This city is like a house that's been neglected for twelve years," says Voinovich. Indeed, an aging storm sewer system regularly floods Cleveland basements. Swimming pools were closed last summer because the city could not afford to fix broken plumbing. Voinovich wants to raise revenues for such maintenance needs by increasing the city income tax from 1.5% to 2%. Last week, on the second anniversary of default, the city council voted to put that proposal, even though voters defeated...
With oil costs soaring, the hunt for alternatives to OPEC petroleum has become a global obsession. To bolster conventional sources of crude, oilmen are drilling more and deeper than ever before. Often they are going to depths of 15,000 ft. or more, and frequently in storm-tossed seas that not even a seasoned mariner would care to navigate. A record 60,000 new oil and natural gas wells are expected to be dug in the U.S. this year, as compared with 27,602 in 1973. Meanwhile, engineers are racing to find new and more effective methods to recover...
...years ago, Portland, Ore., Physician Donald Trelstad and his wife Cindy, put a $450 wood-burning stove in the kitchen of their rambling turn-of-the-century home. Last March they spent $2,400 on storm windows. After the installation of a second wood stove this winter, they expect to shut down their old oil furnace for good. Boasts Cindy: "We could afford the oil bills. It's just that we'd rather not give the money to the Arab cartel. We're sort of proud of the fact that we won't burn...
...members also recruited Fernandez for some security guard work. "I'm five-foot ten, but look a lot taller with the Afro, and I look like I lift weights," he says. So the committee placed Fernandez outside the doors of Holyoke Center, barring the way when SDS attempted to storm the building...
...students told Cambridge officials that poor insulation, luke-warm heating and missing storm windows have made the rooms almost intolerable, adding that the temperatures in some Weld suites had dropped to as low as 56 degrees during the day and 45 degrees at night...