Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...global economic issues have generated so much vitriol as the Soviet Union's drive to win more of the multibillion-dollar business of hauling seaborne international cargo. Since the early 1970s, the Soviets have raised havoc in international shipping conferences-cartels that fix rates on virtually every commodity and allocate cargoes-by cutting rates from 5% to 69%. They are gaining an ever increasing share of trade on lucrative routes, such as those across the North Atlantic and to and from the Far East and East Africa. On U.S. routes alone, the annual dollar value of Soviet-hauled trade...
...temperature much above boiling, could spin turbines and yield heat for such purposes as oil refining, food processing and rice drying. The gas that is dissolved underground in the hot water fizzes out of solution at atmospheric pressure to be captured for fuel. The billion-dollar question is whether all this can be done at an economic cost...
...system will pay for itself many times over, Lawrence says. Every dollar spent on water fluoridation saves $35 of dental bills, and the state will save money by ultimately paying out less in dental insurance, he says...
Meanwhile, as Nixon finished his multi-million dollar memoirs and pursues his psychological "comeback," Raymond Price takes on his new role: critic of the American press. At the Institute of Politics, Price is conducting a well-received study group on the American media and its relations with government. Even as Price's account of the Nixon White House hits the bookstores, the former speechwriter will begin working in earnest on a book on the American media after he finishes with his promotional activities for the Nixon book. Price, who maintains that he often had doubts about the professional standards followed...
Richard Dreyfuss commands top roles, top billing and top dollar in Hollywood, but it has always been hard to accept him as a top movie actor. Though his brash energy holds the screen, Dreyfuss has built most of his characters from a single emotion-an intense comic anguish. At his best-in American Graffiti, Duddy Kravitz and Close Encounters-he can be ruefully witty and vulnerable. His jittery neuroticism keeps an audience guessing whether he might really fall apart. But there is also a persistent feeling that he is hiding behind a pat routine. When Dreyfuss portrays the same boyish...