Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rockies that the malaise began to hit. In a typical end of school urge to get out and be real, I had hoped driving across country would bring me back to the genuine article, Tom Wolfe's Right Stuff, the American Dream. Instead I found myself trapped in Freddy Silverman's fantasy, riding I-70 out of the mountains into the Utah desert...
...Persian Gulf region, and not realizing how widely he was hated by his subjects. Carter first thought the Shah could suppress the mounting demonstrations, then, when events got totally out of hand, abandoned him to his fate. The Shah has told friends, bitterly, that right to the end he expected more assistance from the U.S. Says Richard Falk, professor of international law and practice at Princeton University: "We really didn't appreciate what was happening in Iran, and we didn't appreciate the degree to which Iranians regarded the Shah as our contribution to their suffering...
...January, gasoline prices have risen by about 45%, to a current national average of $1.01 per gal. Daniel Lundberg, whose Lundberg Letter is widely regarded as the most reliable gauge of gasoline marketing trends, figures that prices are poised to jump to $1.18 per gal. by year's end, a startling 17% rise in a little more than a month. Reason: with the troubles in Iran, big industrial users of oil as well as gasoline will now begin building up their stockpiles and tightening the market, sending prices soaring. That will put a pinch on the already strained budgets...
...flowing into Iran. The country has also been going to Thailand for about 15% of its imported rice, and the Thais have plenty more where that came from. Were the U.S. to embargo shipments to Iran, food produced elsewhere would simply move from one international middleman to another and end up in the bazaars of Tehran...
...over $1 million, Ronald and Nancy Reagan live comfortably in an elegantly furnished, five-bedroom ranch-style house in Pacific Palisades. In the living room, the grand piano is covered with mementos of show business days, photographs of Old Friends Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and Edgar Bergen. On the end tables are small glass dishes filled with the jelly beans that became his trademark as Governor. They are intended for guests. To keep down his weight, he rarely eats them now. Reagan is dressed casually, in slacks, a blue V-neck sweater and velvet slippers embossed with back-to-back...