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Rising Prices. The full impact of the oil cutback is still unclear, though there is general agreement that the economy eventually will adjust and continue to grow, despite its reduced energy diet, largely because businessmen and consumers will be forced to change their wasteful ways. Moreover, it now seems that the petroleum shortfall will be less than the thoroughly disruptive 3.4 million bbl. per day originally anticipated. Still, the jittery psychological climate created by the threat has enabled oil-exporting countries to raise their prices to towering new levels, and that will further fuel raging inflation in all industrialized nations...
...Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility decides not to vote on calling its first meeting of the year to order. "This early in the game, while our jurisdiction is still unclear, we thought a memo advising ourselves to come to order would be more appropriate," Stanley S. Surrey, professor of Law and ASCR chairman, says...
What the result in that case will be remains unclear, but it seems that the so-called energy crisis will have a profound impact upon the action both on-screen...
loannidis used his power base as the nation's police chief to oust his old boss, who he felt was liberalizing life in Greece much too quickly. Just what plans loannidis now has for Greece remain unclear. Some observers consider him a rigid, puritanical xenophobe-he has never been outside Greece or Cyprus -who might try to turn Greece into a European equivalent of Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. One thing is certain: he does not plan to return Greece to democracy any time soon...
Cohen has a persistent gimmick--permitting fellow students to speak verbatim in his pages--that presents more problems in the book's organization. Without any real feel for the speakers (he gives no meaningful background on most of them) the importance of these sometimes blank little speeches is unclear. If they are not padding, they do not add much to the book either...