Word: dismemberment
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...stake: unless they expand into new sources of energy, they will die with the depletion of the world's oil and gas reserves. But as long as they face a serious threat of breakup, they will not make the investments required. In return for a pledge to stop dismemberment, Carter should extract a promise that the companies will devote a large share of the profits they would reap from price decontrol to exploration and development of solar, nuclear and synthetic fuels...
Though both measures were defeated, the votes for them illustrated how swiftly anti-oil feeling has risen in the Senate. Only two years ago, South Dakota Democrat James G. Abourezk sought support for a breakup bill and succeeded in rounding up only two cosponsors. More attempts to dismember the oil...
Last week, three days after the USRA had snubbed its plea for a $30 million emergency loan, the debt-ridden Rock Island Line became the first major railroad outside the Northeast since World War II to file for reorganization under the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Rescue operations began almost immediately. To...
In addition to his minute by minute account of the perceptions, tensions negotiations, and rhetoric on all sides at Attica Wicker presents his autobiography. It serves as a perfect corollats to the grim recital of events and speeches. When he needs to express the observers and inmates in tense fears...
I Dismember Mama. Playing in Boston, paired with The Blood Splattered Bride. This seems an appropriate moment to mention that the new feature movies in town ain't so distinguished this week. At the Paramount.