Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cause is a sharp drop in the growth of world oil consumption since the cartel countries dictated their four fold price increase last year. A 7% de cline in West European oil imports since then has sent tanker charter rates plunging. Before the oil embargo started in October 1973, the cost of a spot charter (one or two trips) of a 220,000-ton super tanker for the 11,000-mile round trip from the Persian Gulf to Rotterdam reached a record $8.8 million. By mid-November, the rate had fallen to $2.6 million. Today a 220,000-ton tanker...
...decided to revitalize 186. He called a meeting: nobody came. He called a second meeting and eight people showed up, a third to which 25 people came, and so on. At one point in the drive Local 186 had 15 cents in its treasury. The local got its charter and Stefani took over as business agent on February 11, 1937, but kept working at the Copley until 1963. Only once, in 1941, did someone run against him for business agent, but Stefani swamped...
...MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT: Mexico has taken no specific position on the Middle East conflict nor on the question of the sale of oil by Arab countries, although we benefit from the prices established by OPEC. However, we espouse the thesis of the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States [which Mexico sponsored in the United Nations].* This is really a proposition for a world of cooperation, a pacifist document to establish cooperation between the big industrial countries and the nonindustrialized ones...
...charter, which recognizes every nation's sovereignty over its natural resources and economic activities, was approved by the General Assembly in December by a vote...
...bestsellers by taking just such a view, each portraying the revered Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in a new and unflattering light. Last week Virginius Dabney, a proud Virginian, historian and retired editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, came to the defense of the founding fathers in an outspoken Charter Day address at Virginia's venerable College of William and Mary. He sharply assailed Fawn Brodie, author of Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, and Gore Vidal, who wrote the historical novel Burr, for pretending to sound scholarship...