Word: evering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government is, like it or not, obviously tempting other cartel members to do much the same. Warns Walter Levy, an international oil economist: "This is the beginning of a further round of price increases. As long as spot prices remain substantially higher than OPEC prices, we are in an ever escalating situation...
...Saudi maneuver was a last-minute gamble to regain control over a cartel that shows signs of breaking into a wild scramble for ever greater profits. In a losing struggle to impose some restraint on surging prices, the Saudis have been selling their crude far below the prices charged by nearly all other members...
...enough to replace half of the nation's present oil imports. The Canadians, who have been drilling in their sector of the Beaufort Sea for two years, are very bullish on it: this fall Dome Petroleum Ltd. brought in a 20,000 bbl.-a-day strike, the biggest ever made in Canada. But huge expenses (Dome's well cost $70 million), heavy ice, storms and temperatures as low as - 60° F are only some of the hazards confronting U.S. development of the Beaufort Sea. An all-too-familiar problem: bureaucratic and environmental barriers are holding up progress...
...Nina Ricci firm, openly concedes that his firm could not exist without its worldwide perfume sales. Says he: "It is very difficult to make money out of clothes, and impossible out of haute couture. "High sales volume cannot be achieved with clothes, since no one style can ever have really broad appeal. Perfumes, by contrast, are bought everywhere, in all seasons and by all kinds of people, from secretaries to socialites. L'Air du Temps and other fragrances account for 75% of Nina Ricci's revenue. Several fashion bastions, among them Schiaparelli, Chanel and Paco Rabanne, are said...
...chauffeur. A feminist, Stapleton has been able to have her cake and Edith too. In Boston, two women drivers were added to a once all-male payroll, and in Washington, she was expertly guided through the city's busy streets by Joann Wernke, 24. In Seattle, how ever, Stapleton suggested that a local limo service was taking the wrong route by keeping it all in the family just a little too much: it hired only women. Said she: "I hope that's only transitional, because that's not the goal of feminism. The goal is to forget...