Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expropriation of Portuguese property and Portugal's destruction of Angola's food-distribution system. At the meeting, Eanes and Neto agreed to exchange ambassadors, to settle the property issue and arrange for the voluntary return of refugees to Angola. It was later decided that the cost of repatriating the refugees would be borne by the Portuguese and Angolan governments and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees...
Heavily dependent for income on one export (copper), landlocked Zambia had gone along with the U.N. sanctions at considerable cost. The 1,160-mile Tazara railway, built by the Chinese as an alternative to routes through southern Africa, never became fully operational, because of theft, widespread mismanagement and frequent breakdowns in equipment. Zambia, already suffering from falling world copper prices, found it increasingly difficult to get the metal to markets. Skyrocketing prices and continual shortages of such vital goods as soap, matches and cooking oil created popular unrest and encouraged political opposition to Kaunda's less-than-democratic regime...
...transatlantic flights full-fare passengers will also get an unlimited number of free drinks, as well as free movie headsets. Other airlines are courting these bread-and-butter customers in different ways. Some are trying to attract more of them into first class by cutting the cost of those fares by nearly 8%, making first class only 20% more expensive than coach as of mid-November...
Understandably, people are confused about the oil situation. While the President continues to try to get his stalled energy program through Congress, and the cost of imported oil-which now supplies 42% of U.S. needs, vs. 35% in 1973-continues to increase the nation's balance of payments deficit, critics like Ralph Nader scoff that "the world is drowning in oil." Indeed, the experts themselves are increasingly divided into two camps...
...trouble after that is echoed by many other researchers. Trying a novel approach to assessing the world's reserves, Pierre Desprairies, head of the French Petroleum Institute, recently polled 28 leading oil companies and individual experts on how much oil they thought was economically recoverable at a cost of $20 per bbl., which is about $6 above the going price. The consensus, he reported, was that "the reservoir of oil is large and full"-about 2,000 billion bbl. But there was also general concern about the declining rate of major new discoveries. Says Desprairies: "The big fields have...