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Boskin suggested that if the United States had not taken immediate action by sending troops into the area the price of oil would now be between 50 and 80 dollars a barrel. The price of oil-per-barrel currently lies in the $30-range...
...before coming to the academy. "Here the students really care," she says. "The kids at public school are rezzed out." This phrase provokes snickers from the class. Rezzed out means being provincial, unsophisticated, too much of the reservation. Those kids, she implies, don't care about studying. Claude, a barrel-chested tackle on the football team, came to the academy from a public school in Arizona. "At the public school," he says, "the guys would just drink and party. Here is a better atmosphere." If a student at the academy is caught drinking -- or smoking dope, which is rapidly replacing...
...have also spoken of immediate steps to reduce the price of oil from its current level of about $33 a barrel to about $20 a barrel...
...stock on hand, nearly 100 days' worth. So if we draw from these inventories we will still have enough oil to take us into 1991, and I don't think this crisis will last that long. If we do that, prices will quickly come down to about $20 a barrel. But if we don't, the price will gradually go up to $60 a barrel. Even if nothing else happens. Of course, if we have a severe winter, unfortunately, it could go even higher...
...fourth of the people surveyed by Leo Burnett last week said they plan to do much of their Christmas shopping this year in discount stores. Among the well- managed retailers surging ahead of the pack as a result: the Gap, Wal-Mart, Mervyn's, T.J. Maxx, Costco and Crate & Barrel in Chicago, which specializes in moderately priced housewares. Quality retailers expected to excel by offering affordable luxury range from Dillard department store to Crabtree & Evelyn (bath and toiletries), Williams-Sonoma (kitchenware) and one of the industry's strongest performers, Victoria's Secret (lingerie...