Word: barrelfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outset, Mexican gas will cost the U.S. $3.625 per thousand cubic feet, the equivalent of $21 per barrel for crude...
Toward that end, Fahd argued that the P.L.O. should curtail its terrorist activities for a time, while the Saudis offered the U.S. their million-barrel-a-day oil production bonus-or "Fourth of July present," as King Khalid described it at the time. Kuwait was brought in on the deal to make use of the abilities of its representative on the current U.N. Security Council, Ambassador Abdalla Yaccoub Bishara...
...particularly older ones, perceive their role. By training and tradition they are judges, not administrators or managers. That helps to explain why modern technology and management techniques have been almost totally ignored by the courts. "In a supermarket age we are like a merchant trying to operate a cracker barrel corner grocery store with the methods and equipment of 1900," said Burger in 1970. He spoke from experience. When he came on the court in 1969, he asked to have some papers duplicated. The clerk had to explain to him that the Supreme Court Justices had no copying machine. Burger...
...coal instead of oil and uses expensive "scrubbers" to keep even high-sulfur coal from polluting the air. Facing a crowd of workers in yellow, orange and green hard hats, Carter declared: "I would rather burn another ton of Kentucky coal than see our nation become dependent on another barrel of OPEC...
...Petroleum in western Colorado and Union Oil in southeastern Wyoming. The investment would be hefty-$120 million for Union's 20,000-acre test site designed to produce 9,000 bbl. daily-but there is a strong chance that Congress will approve a $3 tax credit for each barrel produced...