Word: cued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...produced a cease-fire between the two sides by noon E.D.T. on Friday. But the effort failed, and at week's end the best hope for peace seemed to rest with the United Nations and a vague proposal sponsored by its Secretary-General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. Both Britain and Argentina maintained that they were pursuing the peace plan "urgently and constructively," but the language was contradicted by the mood: pessimism...
Meanwhile, a second possibility for negotiations was opening up at the U.N., through the offices of Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar, himself a Peruvian. Some key details of Pérez de Cuéllar's peace proposals were deliberately unclear, but they also called for a cease-fire and pullback by the forces of both sides, as well as a temporary administration for the Falklands (this time under U.N. auspices...
...rationale for the pipeline has been that the country needs Alaska's gas in order to become more energy independent. The 26 trillion cu. ft. under Alaska's North Slope are equal to 13% of U.S. proven reserves and could reduce foreign-oil imports by at least...
...contest for control of Conoco, the energy company laden with 1.7 billion bbl. of oil reserves, 3.8 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas and 14.3 billion tons of coal, whirled on last week at a billion-dollar pace. The opponents: Du Pont, the largest U.S. chemical producer; Seagram, the world's biggest liquor distiller; Mobil, the second largest American petroleum company; and Texaco, the third-ranking oil firm. As the price for Conoco whirled higher and higher, the contestants launched a global financial free-for-all and corralled almost $20 billion in standby credit at multinational banks from...
...Ohio, only to be lured away by far more promising discoveries in Oklahoma and Texas a few years later. But the discovery last September by Dart Energy Corp. and PPG Industries Inc. of a natural gas deposit near Falmouth that energy experts estimate will produce more than 12 million cu. ft. of gas a day has brought wildcatters streaming back...