Word: canale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toll-free Government locks at Sault Ste. Marie are another disguised subsidy to the steel industry. There should be a toll at the Soo Locks similar to that imposed upon cargo passing through the Panama Canal...
...sets important visible bound aries to our ideological and political and military competition." These salvos were just a taste of what is likely to be months of impassioned national argument over the accord's merits, a potentially acrimonious fight that could make last year's Panama Canal Treaty debate seem like a tea party...
Once close relations were established with the Carter administration, CEOs found they could often do favors for the White House. Early in 1978, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance called to elicit business pressure on Congress for the Panama Canal treaty, also during the 95th Congress another Cabinet-level official came to a Business Council meeting to request pressure in the sale of F-15 fighter planes to Saudi Arabia...
...Egypt attacks across the Suez Canal on Yom Kippur while Syrian troops attack the Golan Heights. Israel's counterattacks reach to within 20 miles of Damascus and across the Suez into Egypt. Heavy losses on both sides. The oil-producing states announce a cutoff of exports to nations supporting Israel, and oil prices soon quadruple. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger finally negotiates a cease-fire...
...thus help reduce dependence on foreign oil. Without the pipeline, it would be difficult to raise the North Slope output: the West Coast is already overflowing with Alaskan crude, and Sohio is having to ship some 350,000 bbls. a day of it via tanker through the Panama Canal, a process that adds up to $1 per bbl. to the cost. What is more, oil companies are barred from exporting Alaskan oil, even if the purpose is to swap it for foreign oil that can be brought more easily to East Coast ports...