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Word: baddings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state dinner with Emperor Hirohito of Japan when aides brought the news that all of them had awaited with dread. On the other side of the globe in Geneva, the OPEC ministers had once again jacked up the world price of oil, and the bite was fully as bad as gloomy prophets had predicted?and perhaps worse. The cartel's complex system of base quotes and surcharges works out to an average price of between $20 and $21 per bbl.?up 15% just from last week, 50% since Jan. 1, and 1,000% from the $1.80 price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPEC's Painful Squeeze | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...been speeding up throughout Europe and Japan and will be accelerated further by the oil increase. But in the other six summit countries, unlike the U.S., economic growth has been showing signs of revival this year. Now output and employment will inevitably slow as petroleum prices soar. How bad will the recession that has apparently begun in the U.S. become? That depends heavily on whether OPEC can somehow be persuaded to stop the price spiral at its present point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPEC's Painful Squeeze | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...without some sort of accord. But the import limits are the kind of solution that is only to be described as better than nothing. They will be difficult to enforce, and OPEC can, if it chooses, foil them by cutting production again. At best, the limitations will hold a bad situation steady while the world goes through a painful period of inflation, slowdown or recession, conservation and conversion to alternate fuels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPEC's Painful Squeeze | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Nahant, Nantasket, and Revere Beaches. These beaches hang on the city limits of Boston, in Nahant. Hull and Revere, respectively. They are MDC maintained, and they look it. On a busy weekend, most people don't bother to police their bad instincts, so what you have is a lot of trash. Revere and Nantasket have always been adjacent to amusement parks, and the hush of the waves is complimented by traffic noise and the sound of nearby mechanical thrills. Revere Beach, however, is beginning to clean up its act--the amusements are going elsewhere, and the beach is expected...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Like Lemmings to the Sea... | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

Victor's sacrificial smugness serves to sweeten the bad taste of having lacked the will to rise to his potential. All this and more emerge in tirades that tend to drone when they should crackle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Cry for Justice | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

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