Word: cubical
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...general director Pierre Delepurte, felt it had made sufficient headway to move the final round of discussions to GDF headquarters in Paris. Two-days later, at 11 p.m., the deal was struck: for the next twenty-five years. France will receive--via a trans-European pipeline--eight million cubic meters of natural gas from the Soviet Union, in addition to the four billion it already buys. By 1990, one third of France's gas and five percent of all the energy it consumes will come from Siberia...
This is a nostalgia gone delightfully mad, and the reader is happy to inhale it by the cubic yard. But it comes flirtatiously close to novelizing, a practice Keillor claims in a funny preface to have forsworn after one grotesquely bad unpublishable failure. He writes short pieces, he says, in homage to The New Yorker's former great infield of James Thurber, A.J. Liebling, S.J. Perelman and E.B. White...
...days before Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev flew to Bonn last week for talks with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, officials of Ruhrgas A.G., the major West German natural-gas company, gave a boost to the meeting by signing a 25-year agreement for the annual purchase of 10.5 billion cubic meters of Soviet...
Under both President Reagan and his predecessor Jimmy Carter, the State Department argued that once the pipeline entered service in 1984, Western Europe would become vulnerable to threatened Soviet gas cutoffs. Moscow will eventually be shipping 40 billion cubic meters of gas annually to Western Europe, or about one-fourth of the area's estimated natural-gas needs. Warned Assistant Secretary of State Robert Hormats: "In the past, the Soviet Union has used energy exports as a political lever, interrupting supplies to Yugoslavia, Israel and China, among others." Only last month, Myer Rashish, the Under Secretary of State...
Europeans have been pursuing other parts of the agreement in recent weeks. Gaz de France, the French government-owned gas company, has reportedly signed up for 7.8 billion cubic meters per year. Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland are also expected to buy large amounts of gas from the pipeline. Contracts worth about $1 billion for the construction of compressor stations have been awarded to West German and French firms. Still to be negotiated are the contracts for 3.25 million metric tons of steel pipe worth more than $2 billion...