Word: boostings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sears may have been the target because it is the world's largest retailer (1978 sales: $18 billion), and a victory would give a lift to Carter's price fight. Surely a boost is needed. Consumer prices rose at a 13% annual rate in the first quarter, and wholesale prices for April were reported last week to have increased at an 11.4% annual rate, despite declines for some foods, including pork and coffee...
Only two years ago, oilmen were confident that the Saudis would steadily boost production, to as much as 20 million bbl. a day by the early 1980s. A Senate report three weeks ago concluded that the West will be lucky if the Saudis achieve much more than half that level over the next eight years. They have been shaken by the experience of Iran, where the social strains of rapid industrial development brought on revolution. The royal family is split between moderates eager to expand
...first and biggest boost is made by the Saudi government. Its royalties, fees and taxes bring the price per barrel up to the cartel rate of $14.55, or 35? per gal. Shipping adds about $1.25 per bbl., or 3? per gal. But the actual cost of the journey is perhaps no more than a few cents a barrel. The difference is the profit for the tanker operators to help cover the expenses of maintaining huge, often idle fleets and sending empty tankers back to the Middle East...
...citizenry demand potable water. In Argentina, government repression has all but destroyed the comunidades. But elsewhere, throughout the hemisphere, the little groups have become a force to be reckoned with. Last February at the Conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM) in Puebla, Mexico, the comunidades were given a special boost. The 220-page final document of the conference lauded them as "one of the motives for joy and hope for the church" and "the focal point of evangelization, the motor of liberation...
...played a good game. It's a big boost for the weekend because we meet Dartmouth in the opening game of the New England Championships on Saturday," center Marcia Goldberg said yesterday...