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...monitors who produced the latest survey each watched 12 to 16 hours of prime-time TV this spring. According to Wildmon, they were instructed on how to record the frequency of "sexually suggestive comments, inside or outside marriage," of profanity such as "God," "hell" and "damn," of crude language such as "crap," "horny" and "whore," and of incidents of violence, which was defined as "attempts to do bodily harm to a person." Judgments were necessarily subjective. An objectionable "sexual-intercourse scene" occurred whenever the monitor was "left with the opinion that sexual intercourse occurred," on screen or off, inside...
...United States, the slumping cost of crude will mean less inflation and at least moderately more growth than most experts had been forecasting for 1981 and 1982. Consumer prices will probably rise by about 10% for this year, as a whole, vs. projections of as much as 12% to 13% late in 1980. Lower oil prices may help the U.S. to avoid the recession in 1981 that many economists had also predicted...
Welcome as it is to some oil-importing nations, the weakening price of crude means an abundance of troubles for many oil exporters. Nations like Nigeria, Iran and Libya have year after year pushed the price of crude to ever higher peaks in order to finance ambitious development programs. Now the sagging demand for petroleum is crimping export earnings, cutting into government revenues, and in some cases even beginning to threaten the continuation of many big industrialization projects...
...member, finds itself in a similar bind. Since 1976, Mexican production has more than tripled, to 2.8 million bbl. daily, and the resulting revenues from exports have become the foundation of economic development. Mexico has now cut prices by $4 per bbl. on both light and heavier grades of crude...
Meanwhile, B.N.O.C. has now offered to trim the cost of its crude by $2, to $37.25 per bbl., in order to deter customers from seeking even cheaper deals elsewhere...