Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Iran started turning off its oil spigots last October and completely shut down exports on Dec. 26, but the resulting shortage in world crude supplies has not yet significantly hit oil-thirsty consumers. The crunch of '79, however, will soon become real enough to hurt. The last tankers loaded with Iranian crude have completed their monthlong, 11,000-mile voyage to America's East Coast ports and more and more large U.S. oil companies are cautiously beginning to husband their stockpiles to prepare for a long energy siege...
...hoopsters have not lost since they dropped a 59-55 decision to East Connecticut State on Dec. 15, 1978. Since then, they've glided for nine games to an 11-4 record and, despite their third seed, the best mark of the eight teams in the Ivy League Championships to be played this weekend at Yale...
Held on $500,000 bail, Bario was sitting in his cell on Dec. 16 when the prisoners were served peanut butter sandwiches. Bario took one bite of his and threw the rest in the toilet. Moments later he was found in convulsions. He has been in a coma ever since. Initial tests revealed strychnine in his blood; subsequent ones did not. There was no poison found in his sandwich or in a white powder on the cell floor. His wife Joanne doubts the thoroughness of these tests, however. She was not told of the incident until two days later, when...
...their editorial independence, though it is hard to see how Amexco would be different from any management, including the present one. In any case, those fears have an ironic ring. In a mostly laudatory cover story on Robinson and American Express ("a cash machine"), Business Week advised in its Dec. 19, 1977, issue that Amexco's "best response" to new competition would be "to look for additional products for its affluent market, or to find other businesses that fit [its] specialized mold." Little did the staff guess that their own company would be target...
...savings bond was pronounced dead last week, slipping away to join such other relics of the pre-inflationary past as the 5? candy bar and the two-bit shoeshine. The bonds will continue to be sold through Dec. 31, 1979, after which they will be replaced by a costlier series that will pay the same 6% but have a much longer maturity. The old issue sold for $18.75 and paid $25 in five years; the new one will cost $25 but pay off $50 in eleven years and nine months...