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...some of Ford's White House advisers, who were fully aware that rising petroleum costs were a prime cause of the price surge. The advisers also became increasingly worried that the looming shortages of natural gas, which supplies a third of the nation's energy needs, might trigger a stampede of industries to switch to oil, adding to upward pressures on its price...
...point of failure. A minor quake-contained between the locked areas-should result, relieving the dangerous stresses in the immediate vicinity. By repeating the procedure, the scientists could eventually relieve strains over a wide area. Other scientists feel that such experiments should be undertaken with caution, lest they trigger a large quake. Raleigh is more hopeful. In theory, he says, relatively continuous movement over the entire length of the San Andreas Fault could be maintained-and major earthquakes prevented-with a system of some 500 three-mile-deep holes evenly spaced along the fault. Estimated cost of the gigantic project...
...consumers, perhaps the most visible sign of inflation during the next few months will be gasoline prices. Although the Administration is sticking by its earlier prediction that decontrol of oil prices would trigger only about a 3?-per-gal. rise, some other estimates keep coming in higher. Representative John D. Dingell, chairman of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee's Energy and Power Subcommittee, calculates that gasoline prices could skyrocket to 90? per gal. Most experts doubt that the petroleum retailers will boost prices anywhere near that much, since the summer driving season will soon be over and demand...
...foreign substances, is often present in abnormally large amounts in allergy victims. The Y-shaped molecules join with allergens such as pollens and then lock onto special sites on the surfaces of the connective tissue structures known as mast cells, causing them to release histamines, which in turn trigger allergy symptoms...
...want to buy as much as 11 million additional tons. That would push total purchases this year about a third above the 15 million tons of grain* the Soviets bought during the "Great Grain Robbery" of 1972, when they secretly gobbled up enough of the U.S. crop to help trigger an inflationary rise in food costs. Indeed, a purchase of some 21 million tons would amount to approximately 10% of this year's estimated grain crop...