Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...racialism. This is the challenge that faces America in the Middle East as you begin your third century, and we dedicate our effort to work with you and all the peace-loving nations to make this hope a reality. We have taken together the initial successful steps to break the deadlock and to orient our efforts toward this aim. Now we have ahead of us a great challenge of working together to build up the foundation and the edifice of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East...
When OPEC abruptly tripled oil prices in the wake of the 1973 October War, the big multinational oil firms meekly surrendered. Blair makes the much-disputed assertion that the companies could have employed their own control over marketing, transportation and refining to try to break the price. Instead, he says, the oil giants raised their own prices to even higher levels. In chart after chart in his book, he cites the sudden surge in the Seven Sisters' profits. Blair also charges that the big companies actually helped prop up the OPEC price by cutting back on production at times...
...teams traded penalties as often as they had been exchanging goals in the first. Harvard could not capitalize on two power plays but the Huskies were more receptive to the Crimson hospitality. With a Harvard freshman in the penalty box, New Hampton dazzled Roche with a two-on-one break to lead...
...last weekend aboard the usual Air Force One, Jimmy Carter and his family went via one of the world's most sophisticated aircraft: one of the three "Doomsday" jets that are constantly on alert at heavily guarded Andrews Air Force Base near Washington. Were a nuclear war to break out, Carter would be whisked aboard one of the jets - or sped via helicopter to any of several underground, nuclear-insulated command centers...
...aide fumes: "You try to put together the best plan you can, and then Al Ullman goes off the deep end with some crazy idea of his own." Carter's men argue that the proposal would unfairly benefit employers who are going to increase their payrolls anyway, tax break or no, and would encourage the wrong kind of hiring-since a company could cut its taxes just as much by employing a part-time worker at $4,200 as it could by adding a full-timer at $8,400. Walter Heller, a member of the TIME Board of Economists...