Word: controled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essential problem, as the Saudi Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani admitted during a visit to Washington last week, is that OPEC has "lost control" of price levels. It is now up to the oil-consuming nations to limit price increases by curbing demand. Yamani's point is well taken. The only reason that Libya and Iran have been able to lift prices so much so soon is that, despite an international agreement earlier this year to curb imports, demand for oil continues to grow at a time when Iran's internal problems and lack of technical expertise threaten...
...this epoch of runaway demographics, society is as often described and analyzed with statistics as with words. Politics seems more and more a game played with percentages turned up by pollsters, and economics a learned babble of ciphers and indexes that few people can translate and apparently nobody can control. Modern civilization, in sum, has begun to resemble an interminable arithmetic class in which, as Carl Sandburg put it, "numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head...
Princeton refused to be deflated by the early setback and pressured the Harvard backs for much of the remainder of the half. Only in the second 45 minutes, after Michael Smith moved back to center half from the right side to replace Frank RiCapito, did the Crimson gain control of midfield and look likely to preserve or increase its lead...
...game as the Tigers became frustrated by the score and several calls that made the referees appear orange-crimson colorblind. Having failed to contain the physical second-half play before it caused problems, the referees awarded the Tigers three yellow cards in an attempt to regain control...
Although the first five minutes of the game belonged to Harvard, Princeton soon took control and proved the better team throughout the remainder of the first half...