Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carrington is impatient with pomposity or snobbery. His sharp wit is tempered by a self-deprecating humor that allows him to make light of his 183-year-old title. "My name is Smith," he jokes; his family tree traces back to a banker named Tom Smith. The family seat is the Manor House, set in 800 acres near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire; there Carrington indulges his passion for farming and landscape gardening...
Another spur is that profits of ten of the largest oil companies increased an average of 94% in this year's third quarter, and managers have attempted to divert public criticism by pumping up exploration budgets. A number of independents are still holding back until the windfall profits tax reaches final form. The Senate has proposed that newly discovered oil and certain categories of low-volume wells be exempt. Some oilmen hope that the first 1,000 bbl. per day from an independent producer's well will be free from the tax. Says Jack Allen, president...
...automakers are sinking knee-deep into red ink, as energy-conscious buyers increasingly switch their taste in cars to lighter, fuel-efficient models. Surprised by the speed of that change, manufacturers cannot turn out enough small autos to satisfy public demand, while outmoded big cars gather dust in dealer back lots. As a result, in the first ten days of November, Big Three sales plummeted 26% from last year's levels...
...statuary, formal gardens opening on cypress-dotted vistas. Losey scatters the action of the opera over every photogenic square foot of them. Characters grope endlessly down pillared corridors, wander around outdoors and are unaccountably set afloat on gondolas. Consecutive scenes shift disconcertingly from nighttime to broad daylight and back again. Most of the music is lip-synched to a prerecorded track; inside or out, wind or rain, we hear the souped-up ambience of the recording studio. The result is that characters who ought to be interacting lose touch with each other and finally with the sense of the libretto...
...confrontation and intense expression of feeling. Discipline and structure are maintained primarily by the students themselves. The use of drugs, alcohol, or any violence or sex results in an instant dorm meeting and, sometimes, a call for a temporary expulsion. The student is sent outside the gates, then allowed back in after agreeing to perform 250 extra work hours for the community. If homework is neglected or a bed left unmade, fines are subtracted from the $10 weekly allowance earned by each student. An honor code requires everyone to report infractions by other students...