Word: basic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic situation: the cartel's 13 member nations are now pumping roughly 31 million bbl. of crude out of the ground each day, 2 million bbl. more than last year, but still 2 million bbl. less than nations want to buy in order to keep their factories humming. The shortage has set off a scramble that permits OPEC to charge almost any price its members wish; some U.S. officials fear that the cartel will ram through yet another 15% increase by year's end. The only way to head it off, say government leaders around the world (including OPEC leaders...
...since last January make many Americans understandably wonder why prices keep going up. Some persist in believing there is a scheme among the big oil companies to hoard supplies and make a killing at the expense of the consumer, but there is no evidence of that. The basic cause of rising prices is OPEC price fixing, compounded by the intricacies of Government regulation all the way from the wellhead to the pump...
...delicate topic of human rights, an area in which South Korea has been severely criticized. At a state dinner hosted by the South Korean President, Carter praised the country's economic progress but added that "this achievement can be matched by similar progress through the realization of basic human aspirations in political and human rights." Under a series of draconian "emergency decrees" enacted in the early 1970s in the name of national security, the Korean government has sweeping powers of arrest, detention, search and seizure. Universities, radio stations and newspapers can be closed down, and criticism of the President...
...sociologists have no easy answer to violence in the American family. While they applaud such moves as the opening of shelters for battered wives and the establishment of a National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect, they believe that there must be a more basic attack on violence, including the reduction of "macho" themes on television, the outlawing of corporal punishment in schools and perhaps even the elimination of the death penalty. As Straus explains, in American society, "violence is an acceptable solution to problems. And that is how it is used in families...
...LIKE conducting a battle campaign--you find the grunts, the students in the front lines....then you talk with the sergeants (grad students), then the junior officers (academic advisors). Finally, when I had my basic research in hand, I would go to the general, the president, and ask for an overview...