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...before the oil shock. If prices charged by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries reach $30 per bbl. in the fourth quarter, Meyer says, the GNP would decline a painful 3.6% during the period. If oil levels off at $32 per bbl. next year, he predicts that unemployment would climb to 7.4% by the end of 1991 and add some 2 million people to the jobless rolls...
...Eaton, a Phoenix gas-station manager. "If we go into a recession, I'm going to be cautious and control my own destiny." But the U.S. is already in a recession by many measures, and the country's economic destiny now seems to depend on how high oil prices climb and how long they stay at painful levels...
...needs. But Iraq's opponents won a reprieve last week when important oil producers like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela and Mexico said they would increase output to make up for most of the shortfall. That news helped stabilize world financial markets and stymie the superquick climb of oil prices last week...
BOSTON--Rising tensions in the Middle East could further sink the New England economy, as motorists feel the pinch at gasoline pumps and manufacturers watch oil prices climb, experts said yesterday...
Tearing out of the first dip, they reel from the force of 2.7 Gs -- nearly the gravity load that hits shuttle astronauts on their climb to orbit -- but only for an instant. Then they are shooting skyward for 100 ft., only to dive abruptly again, down the second of 21 more hills. Frightening twists and turns dot the nearly one-mile course, and disaster seems inevitable as the train hurtles back and forth through its creaking wood supports. Finally, the sudden squeal of brakes in the station signals a merciful finish, and the stunned but happy passengers scramble...