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Seven Steps. In his State of the Union II, Nixon also presented proposals to alleviate the energy crisis. He recommended seven steps, including construction of the Alaskan oil pipeline, deregulation of natural-gas prices at the wellhead - a step that would surely force prices sharply upward - and the funding of further research into coal gasification and other new energy sources. Finally, Nixon urged Congress to take action on a whole series of domes tic programs, including the better-schools bill and the better-communities bill, two revenue-sharing measures that would transfer from federal to local authorities much...
...gestures as Americans-they tease one another by sticking out their tongues-a few crucial gestures mean diametrically opposite things in the two cultures. When Arabs shake their heads from side to side, they are saying yes instead of no. Moreover, when Arabs mean no, they move the head upward (and click with the tongue), seeming, to Western eyes, to nod assent. Apparently, however, most foreigners find it easy to switch to the Arab system. Barakat relates the story of an English teacher in the Middle East whose wife had remained behind in England. When one of his Arab students...
...wheat (by then the Soviets had preliminary agreements on most of their buy orders) in an attempt to keep the Chinese from entering the market too. Paranoid fantasy? Perhaps. Still, the Chinese did indeed hold up on some planned U.S. wheat purchases when the prices began spinning upward. Trager, an American gourmet and journalist, is the author of a vast international compendium of nourishment called The Food Book (1970). This volume is briefer - and more palatable. · William Doerner
Whether or not the military on the whole provides an avenue of upward mobility, ROTC apparently does...
Furthermore, the military provides an unusual degree of upward mobility only in proportion to the lack of other safer, more profitable, more prestigious alternatives. White employers have always proved more predisposed to hire blacks to die in wars for them than to pay blacks equal salaries for steady civilian jobs...