Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warning about the Strait of Hormuz is an attempt to prevent the fighting from escalating to the point where it would affect a vital international interest. Sixty percent of the world's oil flows through the strait, and its cutoff would leave homes without heating oil and factories without fuel throughout the western world. Oil supplies are not a mere "phantom" of national security. The United States has only a six-week emergency supply of oil, and it would certainly take much longer for alternative energy sources and conservation to eliminate the shortage that blockage of the Strait would entail...
When MR&A checked with Department of Energy officials in Washington, it found that no one ever mentioned such a doomsday scenario. Apparently, the Energy Department had not made contingency plans for a total oil cutoff. MR&A would find it difficult to model a catastrophe...
...constant shuttle flights from the nearby town of Marabá, Serra Pelada has become a tropical version of the 19th century Klondike. Around the big stike, which is carved up claim block by claim block, the landscape is a jumble of hovels and open bamboo shelters. Young miners in cutoff shorts and sandals throng the dusty alleyways; grizzled oldtimers wearing floppy straw hats lead their pack mules through the maze. Everywhere, anxious men watch drying handfuls of earth for signs of pay dirt. The ground around them flows with a liquid waste, from the panning and sluicing, that...
...class, a bilingual program must be provided. Because the Spanish programs have been taught longer, Hispanics do reasonably well. Programs for newer ethnic groups-among them some 10,000 Japanese, 10,000 Chinese and 10,000 Filipinos-have been less effective. Last June an amendment calling for a total cutoff of bilingual funding passed the Illinois house but was rejected by the state senate...
...March. Its hold on power, however, remains tenuous because it is caught in a vise between the right and the left. Earlier this year a rightist coup that would have ushered in a full-scale military takeover was quashed at the last minute, mostly because Washington threatened an aid cutoff if it was carried...