Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moroccan troops who had been airlifted in at Mobutu's desperate request. The Moroccans shamed Zaïre's 4,000 troops in the fighting area into showing a little backbone. This persuaded the 2,000 or so rebels and, presumably, their Angolan and Cuban supporters as well that the cost of winning a war against Zaïre would be too high...
...trial cost an estimated $15 million, including nearly $7 million for the heavily guarded fortress that was specially built in Stuttgart to hold the defendants and conduct their trial. The building-girded by high steel fences, roofed with bombproof metal mesh and patrolled by policemen and attack dogs -was just one example of judicial overkill. Because of flagrantly injudicious behavior by the main trial judge (who was removed in January) and highly questionable bugging of the defendants and their lawyers during the trial, the verdict is sure to be appealed to higher courts...
...didn't know how to swim. I was very poor on the parallel bars, and my phys.-ed. class came at the damn wrong hour." The reluctant athlete is Philosopher Mortimer Adler, 74, whose aversion to compulsory exercise cost him a B.A. degree from Columbia even though he completed the rest of the curriculum in three years and ranked first in his class. Last week Columbia tried to make things right, if not logical, with the author of How to Read a Book by awarding him its Graduate Faculties Alumni Award for Excellence. Adler accepted benignly, noting later that...
...critics were strengthened last week by release of a United Nations report, prepared by an international symposium of petroleum experts, that took a much more optimistic line. Oil and natural-gas supplies, declared the U.N. report, "would most probably be available, albeit at a substantially higher cost, not only for the next two or three decades but very likely during the period of transition to the use of renewable energy sources even if this transition should last a hundred years or more." The U.N. experts believe that today's high oil prices will encourage exploration in remote, previously uneconomic...
...most U.S. fields, two-thirds of the oil is left behind in drilled wells as the gas pressure decreases and the flow becomes weak. So-called secondary and tertiary methods, which involve pumping water or solvent chemicals into wells can bring out much more. In recognition of the high cost of such "enhanced" recovery, the Carter energy program would free oil produced by those methods from domestic price controls, thereby rewarding the producer with a handsome potential profit...