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...months immediately ahead, Americans can take some solace from one rather tenuous forecast. Long-range weather predictions indicate that the winter could be relatively mild. If that is the case, the discomfort and dislocation arising from the energy crisis may be not disastrous but merely arduous...
While no amount of pop psychology or gimmicks will completely do away with the patients' discomfort, it apparently works wonders for the dentists. "Most dentists are unhappy with dentistry," says Frankel. "They work in sterile, cramped quarters and can't wait to get out. It is hard physical work dealing with frightened people. But we actually look forward to coming to work...
Although stunned by the harsh American response, the Europeans were not too stunned to offer angry rebuttal. In the first place, complained the Europeans, Washington was insensitive to the Continent's particular oil crisis. The Arab cutback will mean inconvenience and some discomfort for the U.S., which gets only 11% of its oil from the Middle East. For Europe, which imports 72% of its oil from the area, a cutback may mean mass unemployment and economic catastrophe...
...started a small school to teach Saudis to read and write well enough to take low-level clerical jobs in the company. Today Saudis with advanced degrees in economics and engineering have not only learned how to run their petroleum industry; as the West is finding to its discomfort, they also know how to conduct a policy of oil diplomacy and set off a run on the dollar on Europe's money markets...
...come from. The desert sands of the Arab nations hold at least 300 billion bbl. of easily recoverable oil, or 60% of the proven reserves in the non-Communist world. Merely by increasing production more slowly than the West desires-let alone reducing it-the Arabs could cause considerable discomfort...