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...authors warn that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries remains powerful despite the excess oil supplies that depressed prices earlier in the year and the group's inability to set production quotas in Vienna two weeks ago. If the oil producers could find the political will to curtail output sharply, say the authors, a barrel of crude oil that now costs $34 could reach $72 by the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Stuck over a Barrel | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...play--without any interpolations from elsewhere. But the playwright's main business here is serious history. In fact, I Henry IV is the earliest extant example of the word history used to designate a dramatic genre. By playing down the history and inflating Falstaff (who is already inflated from excess of food and drink). Shakespeare's balanced design shuttling from palace to pub, from province to plain of battle-is upset...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A Mixed Bag at Stratford | 7/16/1982 | See Source »

...year, 250 newly assembled Jubail modular housing units stood empty in the desert because some necessary plumbing fittings were missing. Two Bechtel employees promptly boarded a plane, flew 13,000 miles round trip to the U.S. and back and returned carrying several containers of faucets, nuts and washers as excess baggage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jubail Superproject | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...excess, movie-star biography can dampen the spirit not because it fails to reveal, but because it succeeds all too well in revealing what film actors are really like. The truth is that the events of an actor's offstage life are usually just as banal and repetitious as the events of ordinary lives. The big difference-even if there is nothing new under the sun-is that what would be garden-variety problems for most people become much harder to handle when they happen to a star. Not only are they painted with the flamboyance of their milieu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What the Stars Are Really Like | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

Hoffman, better known for his anti-war, anti-establishment activities in the late 1960s and early 1970s, now lives in suburban upstate New York. His home is near a bridge the government wants to use to transport excess plutonium from nuclear power plants...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: 'Suburban' Abbie Hoffman Encourages Civil Disobedience | 6/29/1982 | See Source »

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