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...world recession seems to have largely lifted, and crude oil sales are rising as a result. Tanker charters have emerged from the doldrums, as top customers have scrambled to stock up on crude before the price rises again, often paying a 25? or 30? premium on each extra barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: How Much to Pay the OPEC Piper? | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

This amendment, which prohibits the possession of guns with a barrel length of less than sixteen inches, is specifically aimed at those people who like to run on football fields after the game has ended...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Savoir-Faire | 11/2/1976 | See Source »

...proposed legislation would prohibit the possession, ownership, or sale of any weapon from which a shot or bullet can be discharged and which has a barrel length of less than sixteen inches...

Author: By Matt Freedman, | Title: Civics Lesson: Constitutional Amendments and Non-Binding Resolutions | 10/20/1976 | See Source »

...chapels are lovely. They were built in the Byzantine style, with barrel-vaulted naves and horseshoe-arched apses. Unencumbered by the structural requirements of free-standing buildings, the Cappadocian builders developed some unique architectural features, such as unusually broad naves, in their little churches. Some chapels also contain such non-Byzantine elements as conical roofs--typical of Armenian architecture--instead of the more conventional hemispheres...

Author: By John Sedgwick, | Title: Valley of the Fairy Kingdom | 10/19/1976 | See Source »

...line when 34 new homes, going for $58,000 to $67,000, went on sale. Three weeks ago, 650 people turned up at the sales office of the Leisure World development in Laguna Hills, Calif., to participate in a lottery. Those whose names were drawn from a barrel had the privilege of paying up to $128,000 for one of the development's 132 new houses. In Huntington Harbor, a marina complex south of Los Angeles, Christiana Co. recently offered 52 houses, ranging in price from $104,000 to $195,000. In all, 111 people showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: New Starts: A Checkered Pattern | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

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