Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clive will teach two middle-level courses on British history this year, filling in a two-century gap in the History Department's presentation of English history. In addition, he will apply some of his leave research to the preparation of a General Education course, to be called Social Sciences 105, "Classics of Historical Writing: 18th Century to the Present," which is scheduled to begin next fall...
Carter invited Sadat and Begin up to the hills to revive the peace process. What, then, had gone wrong with Sadat's sacred mission? Many observers answer in one word: Begin. Warns a senior British diplomat: "Frankly, there's no chance of a Middle East peace as long as Begin remains Premier of Israel...
...years ago, such Ethel Mermanesque exuberance would have sounded strange coming from the chief of one of world oil's fabled Seven Sisters-Exxon, Shell, Mobil, Texaco, British Petroleum, Standard Oil of California and Gulf.* Though the sorocracy had ruled the international oil trade since it began, the upheaval in the business that started with the Arab embargo of 1973 threatened to end this reign. Flushed with their success in quintupling the price of petroleum, the OPEC countries were about to nationalize their oilfields, which would strip the Sisters of ownership of much of their crude reserves. Some governments...
...BRITISH PETROLEUM, 51% owned by its government, raised operating profits 6% in 1977, but capital-gains taxes cut total net about 10%, to $531 million. In this year's first quarter, its earnings fell 44%, the probably temporary result of lower prices for North Sea crude and of marketing losses in Continental Europe. BP, which has total operating freedom from the politicians in Whitehall, has long emphasized crude production over marketing. The company produces the "blackest" barrel of oil in Europe-that with the largest proportion of low-profit heavy fuel-and early this year closed its biggest refinery...
...Pelléas et Mélisande. But as opera, the music is flawed: the vocal lines are so dense and undramatic that the voices of the mostly young cast get lost. The production is often riveting. In one of the most bizarre scenes, Ferdinand, superbly sung and acted by British Tenor David Hillman, passionately kisses his strangled sister, then rips the red satin lining from her coffin and rushes from the stage...