Word: bonanza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cartel included companies from Canada, Australia, Britain, France and South Africa, as well as the governments of all those countries except Britain. Gulf Oil, the only known American participant, was represented through a Canadian subsidiary. The cartel existed only from 1972 to 1975, but it cashed in on a bonanza that would make an OPEC oil minister jealous: during those three years, world "yellowcake" prices zoomed from less than $6 per Ib. to about $42, where they have since remained...
...which Hicks, Kerrigan and Palladino lose to Sansone and O'Bryant is clearly something of a bonanza for Boston, the referenda defeats and Flynn notwithstanding. And with moderate Councilor James Michael Connolly and School Committee President Kathleen Sullivan topping their tickets, there seems to be a significant improvement. The importance of these results, however, has been overblown. There has been no major change in Boston, only a reaffirmation of the lackluster. Sullivan and Connolly are responsible for no major innovations or progressive actions. They are young, educated, ambitious people who know better than to walk along Broadway Avenue in Southie...
...woman dared Arnold Schwarzenegger to bare his chest recently, while he was signing bookflaps of his new autobiography in a Midwestern shopping center. I will, if you will, he came back. What started there as an innocuous rib turned into a commercial bonanza. Slipping out of their tops-he as startled as she at the absurdity of the spontaneous burlesque--they earned, at least, attention. The camera flashes went wild, and papers sold like Fenway franks the following day. Schwarzenegger is a Madison Avenue dream, a product who customizes himself for whatever consumer he is dealing with at the time...
...signs of optimism were real, and they marked the beginning of Britain's long-anticipated great oil bonanza. With crude from the North Sea fields coming ashore at the rate of 830,000 bbl. per day, the nation will produce about half of the oil that it consumes this year, saving some $3.6 billion in its balance of payments. Oilmen expect that the country will be come self-sufficient in petroleum by 1980. Said Prime Minister James Callaghan after a visit to the huge "Forties" field: "God has given us an opportunity we have not had in a century...
...events are behind the bonanza. First, the rise in the price of gold from $35 an ounce to $145 since the federal ban on private ownership of the metal was lifted in 1975. Second, the development of portable dredges, some weighing only 25 lbs., that suck in gravel and sand and separate the heavier gold grains and nuggets. A dredge costs as little as $160; diligent-and lucky-prospectors can make $200 or more on a weekend...