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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vast new promised land -the West. The industry has long known about the immense coal reserves between Arizona and Montana. But few operators chose to mine the deposits, mainly because the coal was too far from the biggest markets. Yet after 1970, the Western coal began to exert a powerful new appeal for the simple reason that it has a low sulfur content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENERGY: King Coal's Return: Wealth and Worry | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...flat month at the end of last year. U.S. exports during 1975 ran $11 billion ahead of imports, according to Census Bureau figures, eclipsing the previous record trade surplus of $8.6 billion in 1947. Businessmen and investors are also encouraged by the Federal Reserve Board's willingness to exert pressure to push down interest rates; last week First National City Bank of New York cut its prime rate on loans to business by a quarter point, to 6.5%. Says Howard Stein, chief of the Dreyfus Corp., which has $2.5 billion in mutual funds: "The Fed is finally allowing interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STOCK MARKET: The Bulls' Biggest Month in History | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

Many of us in New Hampshire feel that William Loeb [Jan. 12] should apply his paper's slogan ("There is nothing so powerful as truth") to the Manchester Union Leader, reasoning that it does not represent Manchester, preach unity or exert true leadership. When Loeb was in a Boston hospital recently, some fantasized that instead, the whole state should be in-for a Loebotomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Feb. 2, 1976 | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...Liberation of Angola was endangering détente. The officials refused to say what, if anything, Kissinger extracted from the Soviet leader on the Angola situation. Perhaps significantly, however, they said that the U.S. will watch closely in the coming weeks to see if the Soviet leaders exert pressure on Fidel Castro's Cuba to withdraw any of its 10,000 troops, which have helped the M.P.L.A. gain the upper hand against two U.S.-backed factions (see THE WORLD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISARMAMENT: Trying to Lower The Ceiling | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...suggest, Tawfiq Zayad's recent election as mayor of Nazareth [Dec. 22] may encourage Israeli Arabs to try to exert political power on a national scale. However, I do not see this as a catastrophe for Israel. In fact, a successful bid for political power by Israel's Arab citizens may prove that Israel's political system works for all her citizens, and that her democratic ideals are honored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 12, 1976 | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

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