Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brimming storage tanks, the oil companies are buying all the crude that they can, even at $32 per bbl. Said one Exxon official: "There's still a fear of being caught short if Iraq reduced production or Iran cut back more. We're going to fill every bucket." American oil reserves now amount to only a ten-week supply of imports at current consumption levels, and today's ocean of oil could evaporate like a mirage in the desert...
...lunch-bucket town with a world-class symphony. A heavily black city with a black-run government, but an economy dependent on white business leaders. A community that prides itself on its race relations, yet a town where the underlying tensions could still cause another riot. And it's a Democratic town holding the Republican National Convention...
...into reader complaints. "I have long dreamed of buying a samovar," wrote one frustrated consumer from Stavropol. "How often have I searched in stores with, alas, no results." A resident of Zaporozhye wrote that her stores carried a model for 25 rubles, but added: "It looks like a galvanized bucket with a spigot." Pravda approached the proper ministry for an explanation and printed its response: 28 models were available, and "much is being done to improve their external appearance," said a spokesman, adding that samovars had not been overlooked in the latest Five-Year Plan. By 1985, he predicted...
...partial result, no doubt, of the inflationary squeeze. Says James: "A teen-ager who has to pay $20 to fill his car with gas and $5 for acne medicine is going to be hard-pressed to pay another $10 for a couple of movie tickets, a bucket of popcorn and soft drinks...
...unemployment and inflation. Okun's abiding concern was to control inflation without triggering recession and its grim results for the poor. Economic efficiency, he believed, must yield somewhat to social equality, or as he put it: "Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket...