Word: embargo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demand economics. There are new incentive programs for workers and a plan to pay interest on small savings accounts. Castro has also dropped hints in recent months about resuming trade with the U S which had been an overpowering force in the Cuban economy until Washington imposed a total embargo in the early 1960s. Washington's reply: no deal unless Cuba withdraws its troops from Africa...
...determined to win the energy war. The people here on East Biddle Street can help me. Do you agree?" The crowd roared its support. Predicting that similar solar units would eventually be" put on homes all over America, Carter asked: "There's no way for them to embargo the sunshine, right?" Again, the audience shouted its agreement...
Once in Hanoi, the Congressmen were treated with great warmth by Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Nguyen Co Thach, who is pressing for U.S. recognition and an end to Washington's trade embargo against Viet...
...been spokesman for such proposals as SALT II, the Panama Canal, and lifting the Turkish arms embargo...
...Strategic Storage. One of the most critical functions given to the department was creation of a strategic petroleum reserve, a 1 billion-bbl. oil stockpile designed to offset shortages created by such interruptions as the Arab oil embargo of 1973. But when Iranian production was cut earlier this year, that reserve, which was supposed to stand then at 250 million bbl., had reached only 60 million bbl. Incredibly, DOE had not installed the pumps necessary to retrieve the oil from the Louisiana salt domes into which it was being pumped. Those pumps were finally installed last month...