Word: dou
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because it would come on top of the damage done by those setbacks. The study estimates that the previous jolts have cost the U.S. and its major trading partners a total of $1.2 trillion in lost eco nomic growth between 1974 and 1981. In addition, the increased prices have dou bled unemployment rates and nearly tri pled the pace of inflation. The shares of their gross national products that Western economies spend on energy have also tri pled. Writes Yergin: "Thus, an oil price rise of any given magnitude will now have a greater effect on the consuming nations than...
India clearly is determined to remain on good terms with the U.S.S.R. - for compelling economic reasons. New Delhi's trade with Moscow is expected to dou ble in the next five years, reaching $12.9 billion by 1985, making the Soviet Union India's biggest trading partner. The Soviets last May sold arms to India worth $1.6 billion, under financing conditions that were much more favorable than those offered by any other country. Last week Brezhnev agreed to supply India with the 2.5 million tons of crude oil it desperately needs next year to help compensate...
...artisans were dispensing with the traditional vessel forms entirely, as attested by a container fashioned in the shape of a rhinoceros. Its creator seized on the skin folds around the beast's neck to impose a bold, abstract pattern on a powerfully articulated form. From the tomb of Dou Wan, consort of the 2nd century Han prince Liu Sheng, comes the figure of a kneeling girl. The lamp she holds is pivoted so that light could be directed as her mistress might wish. Smoke from the candle within passes up through the girl's sleeve and on into...