Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back of Carter's rejection of the oil purchase), the President's National Security Council issued Presidential Review Memorandum (PRM) 41 in mid-December, which recommends granting Mexico concessions on certain issues in hopes of gaining access to "the most promising new source" of oil for the 1980s...
...result of the Ira nian cutbacks. On the other hand, the potential loss of Iran as a market for U.S. arms sales means that weapons makers will have to look elsewhere for business, and that raises the prospect of some potentially explosive competition for customers in the 1980s...
...through its mania for dam and park building, the T.V.A. dispossessed thousands of people who had lived in the valley for generations. Communities with names like Energy, Wildcat and Turkey have been wiped out. Through its cultivation of nuclear power (it will have seven operating plants by the late 1980s) the T.V.A. encouraged the development of a dangerous source of energy. The agency's leaders and bureaucrats also developed a contemptuous attitude towards the people they ostensibly served; Jenkins who had been fighting federal regulation of strip mining told the press that he would pass a good bill...
...stagnant productivity. With the price of a top-of-the-line Volvo now $16,000 in most markets Gyllenhammar had been counting on his Norwegian connection for the money needed to develop a radically designed lightweight vehicle that would give the company broader market appeal for the mid-1980s...
...believe the author - and more and more they tell us to believe the authors of science fiction! -the current surge of sex will become a deluge in the 1980s...