Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place calls for them at one of the temporary pay phones. Doctors in the area transferred to working answering-service numbers, and regularly sent nurses to pay phones to get messages. Editor Lyla Aubry compared the phone-out to "the electric power blackout of 1965: it made us feel closer together...
...jobs for youths and a six-months extension of some 310,000 public service jobs. On the other hand, Ford roundly criticized Congress for appropriating more funds than he has recommended to stimulate the economy. And, White House spokesmen suggested to reporters that the 1975 budget deficit may be closer to $80 billion than Ford's original projection of $52 billion...
...which averaged 33 million bbl. a day in 1974, is now down to an average rate of 27 million bbl. Cartel officials note that even with shrinking demand, oil producers are taking in more money now than they were a few years ago. Yet the more production falls, the closer OPEC comes to an exquisitely difficult political problem: how to apportion cuts within the cartel so that no member suffers more than others. Already Abu Dhabi has publicly complained about the fact that the cartel has taken no steps to allocate production cuts. In these circumstances, the stresses within OPEC...
...furiously despite obvious gains by the ocean. The academics, Fisher explains now, his voice assuming a mock gravity, "are studying the situation, doing a psychoanalysis of what a funny attitude this Fisher's got." By no means irreverent, Fisher concedes. "The more time the scholar takes, the better, the closer he will come to the truth. But for the operator, action deferred depreciates in value...
...Folk music was developed by people who wanted to maintain the tradition of the land because they had to work it all the time. You've got to have a song to work the land. That's why I think that sometimes certain people from Northern Europe are closer to black music than other people, depending upon what kind of work they've been doing for many generations...