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...must reduce its imports of oil?which are now 7.3 million bbl. per day???by 1 million bbl. per day this year, and by 2 million bbl. in 1977. The way to do it is to make energy so expensive that consumers and businessmen cannot afford to burn as much oil as they...
...officials believe that the time for concerted action against OPEC may be approaching, in part because there is currently a surplus of 1.5 million bbl. of oil per day???or 2.7% of the total used ?on the world market. Reasons: the fourfold increase in the price of oil has already led to a drop in consumption and the world's slowing economies use less energy than before. Even though several OPEC members reduced their output in a countermove, oil storage tanks in the consuming nations are nearly filled to capacity. Moreover, unlike the situation during last winter's embargo...
...originality; and it was not lost on the Venetians. "I wish you were here in Venice!" Dürer wrote to his best friend, the Humanist Willibald Pirckheimer, in 1506. "There are so many nice fellows among the Italians who seek my company more and more every day???wise scholars, good lute-players, pipers, connoisseurs of painting . . . On the other hand there are also some of the most false, lying, thievish rascals, the like of which I could not have believed lived on earth. They copy my work in the churches and wherever they find it, and then they revile...
There are times when Cavett envisions taking over The Tonight Show if Johnny Carson should ever retire. Then there are occasions when Dick feels like buying a long-term Eurailpass to oblivion. Running his show, he says, "is really like an actor being in repertory but where in one day???one performance?you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy. It's a satisfaction in one way in that you get to use all the arrows in your quiver, or strings in your bow, or bats in your belfry. But it's also very...
...Angeles Adman Bob Kuhn says: "Women are jeopardizing all the gains they have made, and I also feel they are throwing away much of their mystique." Still more outspoken is Male Chauvinist of the Week Hugh E. Geyer, a Morristown, N.J., executive: "They've got nothing to do all day???just push this button and push that button. What the hell does a healthy woman do all day besides rush home at 5 o'clock and give the old bastard a beer? I just can't stomach the laziness of women." Margaret Mead, though in sympathy with most...