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...increasingly rode on cheap Arab oil, Quietly, throughout the '50s and '60s Western dependence on imported oil steadily grew, until the sheiks gathered enough expertise and courage to take advantage of their golden opportunity. The subsequent oil shocks of '73-'74 and '79-'80, both associated with Mideast war, dealt a severe and permanent blow to the World economy. These shocks were a major contributor to three well-known trends of the '70s--inflation, unemployment, and conservation. A loss to the Western economies of over $1 trillion had to be paid by someone, and it wasn't the oil companies...
...verbal missiles fired in magisterial wrath: Ronald Reagan denouncing the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" that had committed "a crime against humanity" when its fighters shot down a Korean jetliner; Yuri Andropov responding that the Reagan Administration had "finally dispelled" all "illusions" that it could be dealt with. At a baser level, crude vilification: American caricatures of Andropov as a "mutant from outer space"; Soviet comparisons of Reagan to Adolf Hitler...
...celebrated in TV programs such as Dragnet and Adam 12, the Los Angeles police department has long been the very model of a modern constabulary: efficient, dedicated and incorruptible. But that image is being dealt a severe blow by allegations that from 1970 to 1981 the department ran a domestic spy operation, infiltrating more than 200 political, religious, labor and civic organizations and amassing information on thousands of Angelenos. Most of the snooping was illegal and politically motivated, charges the American Civil Liberties Union, whose suit on behalf of 131 victims is scheduled to go to trial next month. Says...
...else. An employee would be so tired after pursuing internal mechanisms, and the incident might have been so far in the past (if indeed the employee is still with the University), that the isolated individual would just drop the matter. Moreover, most of the workers that Wendy Kaplan has dealt with were not aware there was an official harassment policy, and once she showed it to them, most of them could not understand...
Exactly one-minute into Cornell's Mindy Manley penalty, the Crimson's other starting defenseman got into the act Carroll this time dealt the puck from the slot to Sue Newell at the top of the right face-off circle. With Carroll screening Gilbert the senior defenseman found the twines...