Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning in June, and to bring in a "windfall profits" tax. Scrapping controls will allow U.S. oil prices, which average about $9.45 per bbl., to rise during the next two years to the cartel-set world level, which already stands at a minimum of $14.55 and is certain to climb still higher. The oil companies would get an extra $6.5 billion in earnings annually from decontrol, but about half of the money would be taxed away. The Government would use much of the tax revenues to help industry shoulder the daunting costs of projects aimed at extracting oil from shale...
...Bryant says the most elaborate robbery attempt occurred in 1971, when an intrepid would-be thief stayed in the building after closing hours and climbed out onto the roof of the Widener rooms housing one of the few Gutenberg Bibles in the world. The man broke through two skylight windows, lowered himself into the chamber and removed the extremely heavy volumes from their case. Bible in hand, he began to climb the knotted rope, but midway up, he fell to the concrete floor. The robber's moans brought one of the night janitors running. "He was terribly injured...
...HIGH WILL the numbers of murders have to climb before Boston's black community can live in peace and safety? This Easter, Darlene Rogers became the seventh black victim since January in a series of murders the Boston police say are not related...
...finance, became its president. Through a series of acquisitions, he quickly started transforming the company into a go-go builder of specialized agricultural and petroleum systems for Iron Curtain and Third World countries. By 1972 ISC was engaged in projects in 40 countries, and Kenneally was beginning to climb on the business jet-set circuit. Two years ago he and David Rockefeller, the Chase Manhattan Bank chief, were vice chairmen of the Iran-U.S. Business Council, and Kenneally was also vice chairman of the prestigious National Council for U.S.China Trade...
...question; I'm not at all certain that it should. But unless Mr. Yates--"individualistic and independent" though he is--is truly alone in the world, he has a duty to himself and to those who care about him not to endanger his own life unnecessarily. He should not climb dangerous mountains alone--legally or otherwise. Kim Hasse Freshman Proctor