Word: crude
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mounties who had been fielding the classic textbook operation: a sting by a double agent. The KGB appeared so deceived by the Mounties' ruse that one astounded Canadian official said, "One wonders-do they assign their better people here? They seem to have been incredibly crude, gauche and maladroit...
...that never leaves the state where it is produced (only gas piped across state lines is now regulated), but would raise the ceiling by about 19%. The increase would give producers more incentive to explore for new fields. The other section would increase the price of domestically produced crude oil by some 63% over the next three years through a federal tax on producers. This would bring prices to world levels set by OPEC and thereby discourage consumption...
...prices and rejected the oil tax, leaving it to a joint conference committee to thresh out a compromise. The committee has been stymied on the natural gas question and by the fractious and squabbling performance of its Senate members. As a result, it has not even got to the crude oil problem...
...Cruel? Crude? Even a wee bit sexist? You bet pal, but it's not my fault--I'm just your typical cosmopolitan shopper, aged 20-to-35, M.C. Escher on my closet door and cross-country skis within. I breakfast at the Greenhouse Coffee House, brunch at 33-D, and eat out whenever I can. I'm as relevant as Passim's and as exotic as the Coffeee Connection...
...childhood wounds carried for a lifetime. Yet the stories cannot be easily dismissed or forgotten. Farrell's approach, like that of his mentor Theodore Dreiser, consists not only of primitive human drama but also of profound human sympathy. In this, his 51st book, the drama is crude but the sympathy incalculable...