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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority eleven will forgo the additional 5% hike set for July, and the Saudis and the Emirates will move up from 5% to 10%. A minority view is that the eleven will be forced to cut their prices by such devices as discounts for crude with a high sulphur content, and the eventual increase will settle somewhere between 5% and 10%. Oilmen see only an outside chance of a price war between the Saudis and their OPEC colleagues-but that chance is strong enough to make the battle of the barrels over the next months a suspenseful struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Battle of the Barrels Begins | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...conflict with the public's need to know what its government is doing, especially when the cost is measured in blood and bone and shattered national integrity. There should always be a deep reserve of suspicion for those men who merely carried on in the midst of the storm, content to silently watch the course of its fury...

Author: By Parker C. Folse, | Title: Prisoners of the Past | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

HALSMAN: My training as a student of engineering was responsible for my emphasis on precise, sharp and clear photographs. My interest in psychology has made me conscious of the fact that photographic technique produced psychological overtones which could either reinforce or weaken and destroy the content which the photographer wanted to convey...

Author: By Fung Lam, | Title: Philippe Halsman | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...veritable art, the correct choice of wax depends on two factors: one, the history of the snow (has it melted and refrozen?), and two, the water content of the snow...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: Why Ski Cross-Country? | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Guillen said he has done most of his work in the U.S. He has been content to write away from his homeland, he said, although he added, "As a poet I would prefer to have my own language around...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Jorge Guillen, Former Norton Lecturer, Receives Cervantes Prize for His Poetry | 12/7/1976 | See Source »

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