Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After having witnessed the President's performance at the Aug. 22 press conference [Sept. 3], I am more assured than ever of his innocence. Such courage could not have been born out of guilt...
...special survey on Watergate conducted for TIME by Daniel Yankelovich. Inc. Perhaps the deepest-probing national study yet made on citizens' attitudes toward Watergate, the Yankelovich poll reached a scientifically selected national sample of 1,240 adults by telephone during two periods: the week before Nixon's Aug. 15 television speech and the week after it. An additional smaller sampling of other citizens was taken after his Aug. 22 press conference...
...China has now taken an important step toward filling those vacant ranks and putting its house in order. Last week Hsinhua, the Chinese news agency, announced that the long-anticipated Tenth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party-the first such gathering since 1969-had been held in Peking from Aug. 24 to 28. The Congress had been led by Mao himself, whose failing health was belied by the amazingly healthy and even youthful-looking photographs released by the Chinese. Although China watchers for the past few weeks had suspected that the Congress was imminent, neither fanfare nor publicity marked...
...enforcing Phase IV guidelines that would require the price cuts; they will now go into effect Sept. 8. The COLC has also demanded that Atlantic-Richfield Co. (ARCO) justify a 1?-per-gal. increase on gasoline and a 2?-per-gal. hike on fuel oil that the company posted Aug. 20. If the company's data do not convince the COLC that the boost was forced by increased costs, chiefly for buying imported crude oil, it may be ordered to cancel the rise. Such actions are needed, says COLC Director John Dunlop, because "rapidly increasing prices for gasoline...
...removing them causes prices to shoot up. As TCAs came off, the national average price of regular gas rose from less than 34? per gal. to more than 37?; in some markets, prices rose 6? per gal. in a matter of days. After the freeze went into effect Aug. 15, of course, the steep rise stopped and, in some markets, prices resumed normal sharp fluctuations...