Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have so far this year jacked up the inflation rate by 2.5% in the industrial countries. A further $5.45-a-bbl. boost is likely to siphon an additional $80 billion a year out of the major industrial nations, reducing their citizens' ability to buy food, clothes, houses?indeed, everything except oil. Result: further slowing of growth rates that have only recently begun to pick up (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), and increasing unemployment...
...long festering resentments. The drivers, who often operate on very low profit margins, felt they deserved fast financial relief. They argued that cumbersome federal regulations have long favored the big trucking companies, which are not on strike, and discriminated against smaller owners. Under federal rules, to carry anything except agricultural products, the independents must drive under contract to the big companies. When they hire out, they must pay the company between 30% and 50% of their gross returns...
...state might never have bothered him except that tales of excessive punishment kept surfacing from some of his thousands of alumnae. In 1973 the state attorney general's office ordered an investigation, alleging that Roloffs residents were sometimes beaten black and blue, or tied to toilets for days. Roloff refused to admit the inspectors...
Answer: Not much, except that they have all just won an election. Soon they will all be commuting to Strasbourg as mint-new members in the Parliament of the European Community, the world's first democratically elected international body...
...compositional coherence of the moving image. The background in these takes persistently changes in design and perspective while the foreground is periodically "disturbed" by the turbulence of passing vehicles or silhouetted pedestrians. While the exterior long trackings are executed in medium shots with a pronounced depth of field(except in one specific case), New York streets are clearly visible and constantly changing as the characters walk across the avenues or turn street corners: similarly, in interior sequences, moving characters are followed by the camera in close-ups (with the background exposed as an abstract milieu...