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Even when heating oil and gasoline are available, they have become a cost headache for districts that typically must pay about two-thirds more than they had budgeted for gasoline. "Socalled fixed costs just aren't fixed anymore," says Frank Harlacher of the National School Boards Association. That is one of the problems to be taken up when some 300 members of the association gather in Washington, D.C., week after next. Their meeting will be a two-day crash course in the educators' most compelling new subject: the economics of doing without.