Word: contrivedness
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Many independent station owners claim that the big oil companies have contrived a phony shortage to drive them out of business by shutting off their supplies. That conclusion was supported by six state attorneys general -from Massachusetts, North Carolina, Florida, New York, Connecticut and Michigan-who testified at a Senate...
Most devastating to that defense was the publication of a series of CIA memos detailing conversations between CIA officials, Acting FBI Director Gray and White House Aides Ehrlichman, Haldeman and John Dean. Repeatedly, these discussions concerned ways in which the CIA could be used to keep the FBI investigation limited...
The Coop is quick to rebut its critics. General manager Davis recently labeled many of Steele's criticisms as "contrived." He claimed that a new profit-sharing plan more than compensates Coop employees for any losses they might have suffered resulting from the adoption of a new pension plan last...
So last week Deputy Treasury Secretary William Simon, chairman of the Government's Oil Policy Committee, announced an Administration plan to allocate petroleum supplies. The aim, Simon said, is "to share the shortages equitably." Basically, the measure asks major petroleum refiners and marketers to apportion their supplies to customers...
Some politicians and bureaucrats suspect that the shortage was contrived by the oil companies to force prices up and impress Congress with the need to authorize a pipeline to the oilfields of Alaska. The Federal Trade Commission is looking into oil-company marketing practices. Connecticut Attorney General Robert K. Killian...