Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distant Ottawa government. The Maritime provinces are locked into a vicious economic cycle, with unemployment as high as 20 per cent in some areas, and despite federal investment incentives, practically separatist government clamors for "sovereignty association," a euphemism for secession. If Quebec were to secede, the Maritimes would be cut off from the rest of Canada. A chain of seceding provinces is not unforeseeable, for while Quebec is an enigma, it is by no means an anomaly...
...woman approaches me at The Rat. She is small and comely, her thin black dress, cut in strips that hang from her waist, revealing in a flash. Saucy red lipstick and a flower painted on her cheek, she is a smiler, coming right up to me and asking if she can illustrate my entire body. She is a body illustrator. Her name is Cretin Hop. At home she gives me cleavage, shows me a giant watercolor illustration of Patti Smith--slightly smudged by sweat--marked painstakingly beneath the knap of a breast...
Though the Seven Sisters dominate the industry, their influence and power are actually being cut down by the energy upheavals of the 1970s. This winter the worldwide shortage of crude has encouraged one nation after another, and numerous independent oil firms, to deal directly with OPEC, in effect short-circuiting the big multinationals. Says Thornton Bradshaw...
...other overhead expenses, and still earn a profit. For competitive reasons, dealers normally sell at somewhat less than their maximum allowable prices; drivers shop around for the best prices when supplies are ample. But when a small surplus of oil turns into a modest shortage, companies are forced to cut back on gasoline shipments, and that lets retailers raise their prices right up to the federal ceilings...
...capacity of refineries to make enough. To keep abreast of demand, refineries have had to wring every last drop of gasoline out of crude oil shipments, and this has held down production of heating oil. Now, just as the summer driving season is approaching, refineries may have to cut back on gasoline production in order to increase output of heating oil to replenish stockpiles...