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Rising gasoline prices are siphoning money out of drivers' wallets. The average price for retail gasoline hit $1.76 a gallon last week, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA), up 5?? a gallon over the previous month. California motorists have suffered from pump prices well above $2 a gallon. The Bush Administration says the Environmental Protection Agency is "seriously considering" requests from New York, Connecticut and California for temporary exemption from cleaner-burning-gasoline requirements that have likely contributed to higher prices, given that those blends are in shorter supply. If the exemption is granted, drivers could see prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Fill 'er Up for Less | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...That much cheap oil was the last thing the international oil companies wanted. They clamped a lid on the well and sat on the field through the 1930s because the world was awash in oil, and prices were already depressed. Texas crude had fallen from $1.30 per bbl. to 5?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Crude Awakening | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...tape of an angry Maffia telling King over the phone, "I'm gonna kick your ass." On the other hand, King's assertion that he knew nothing about the alteration seemed disingenuous after his employees testified that their boss insisted on signing every check, some for as little as 5?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A WIN BY SPLIT DECISION | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...Mount Bjelasnica, some 500 soldiers were packing the racecourses, stolidly enduring the 5??F cold and the eternal winds. It was a time to be philosophical; at least no one was shooting at them. In Sarajevo, members of a student volunteer brigade goofed and joked as they worked without undue haste at shoveling snow from the center of Kosevo Stadium. Mirjan Jarovije-vic, 15, a student at the Yaroslav Cernyi technical school, took the arrival of a visitor as a splendid opportunity to lean on his shovel and sneak a smoke. He said he had been chosen for the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rolling Out the Red Carpet | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

Hamill, 31, is trying to relieve his Star Wars frustrations on the stage. He has been playing the part of Mozart in Amadeus for 5?? months, first on tour and now on Broadway. Like all the other actors, Hamill is devoted to Lucas, but he admits that "these movies didn't give me much pride in my craft. I had to act onstage to get that. Special-effects movies are hard on actors. You find yourself giving an impassioned speech to a big lobster in a flight suit. Only later do you see how silly it looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Galloping Galaxies! | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

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