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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Big Exporters 1978 estimates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Big Oil Game | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...industry's big advantage is that it can produce more "facts" more quickly than any of its critics. Since the 1973 Arab oil embargo, the companies have greatly expanded their Washington staffs; Gulf Oil, for example, increased its corps of lobbyists, lawyers and aides from four to twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Big Oil Game | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...Big Importers 1978 estimates (nonCommunist countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Big Oil Game | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Refineries pay about $15.80 per bbl. or 38? per gal. for the Saudi crude. But they actually get a big refund from the complex U.S. Government entitlements scheme. This reduces the refineries' real cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: How the Price Is Pumped Up | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Talk about double-entendre. For the big-production opening and closing numbers of Cinemactress Shirley Mac-Laine's television special, the Bluebells from Paris' famed Lido nightclub were called upon to dance two almost identical versions. Avec bras for U.S. television, a CBS special to be aired May 20. But then, performing before a sophisticated audience at the Lido that included Monaco's Princess Caroline and le Tout-Paris, the chorus danced the same routines sans bras for a later broadcast on European television. Vive les différences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 7, 1979 | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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