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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stiff rise from the current official maximum of $23.50 per bbl. now seems increasingly likely when the cartel meets in Caracas on Dec. 17. So too do market-tightening cutbacks by a number of cartel members eager to keep oil prices high even as the world economy slows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bankers Grab the Booty | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Based on the theme of health, this year's "ultimate gifts," perhaps because of current economic woes, are not quite so extravagant. Sakowitz's biggie is a personal home health care center that includes his-and-her locker rooms, whirlpool, steamroom, indoor track and gym, an exercise room, a First Aid room, and a health food bar. You provide the land, and Sakowitz will build the complex for $1.6 million...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: All I Want for Christmas......Is A Blimp or Two | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Ginny Schneider '80, current RUS vice president, said yesterday, "Observing from past elections, women don't like to compete with each other. They chose the post no one else is interested...

Author: By Monique A. Sullivan, | Title: RUS Selects New Officers For 1980 Term | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...list of individualists that Boston's Beacon Hill has nurtured over the centuries, add Richard White, 24, a day laborer, writer and naturalist who shuns, literally, current affairs: his apartment on Myrtle Street has no electricity or gas. He explains: "I eat only natural food, and I buy enough to last me only a day, so I don't need a refrigerator. I don't need gas because I don't believe in heating food. It destroys the nutrients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Pulling the Plug | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...electric current sent through this wire papillotome burns a larger opening in the papilla and cauterizes the wound. Stones can then pass from the bile duct into the duodenum and on through the intestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Shah's Galling Gallstone | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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