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...major oil exporting nations and announced a 77% increase in the posted price of Nigerian crude, making it $14.69 per bbl. The new price is expected to earn Nigeria some $7 billion this year. In addition, the government currently is mulling over offers, mostly from American firms, to exploit the 2 billion cu. ft. of natural gas that now are flared daily as waste...
...terms of creating an inspired, sensitive statement pornography can be an aesthetic, enlightened art form which does not exploit the body. But the editors of Playgirl and Viva generally tread the beaten path depicting men subduing or taking advantage of brainless sex kittens. One of Viva's photographic essays begins with a disheveled, slutty wench lying on the grass half-naked, touching and enjoying her body. An arrogant, supercilious gentleman approaches her and carries her home after sampling her wares. The following pictures show him in his bedroom nude, coyly fingering a whip, making love to the girl and ends...
Pearson tries hard to humanize the Secret Service Superman. But as the ad ventures come thick and fast, 007 remains precisely what Fleming made him: a suave robot programmed to exploit the romantic idea that physical pleasure becomes more intense as death becomes more imminent. After 1 5 min utes, readers looking for truth will see the put-on. But true Bondsmen will rejoice at any flimsy excuse to see their man in action again. Bond is last seen heading for Australia on the trackdown of an old antagonist, Irma Bunt, the late Ernst Stavro Blofeld's baleful dumpling...
...tapped. The consumer would not suffer too much immediately, since the cost of new gas would be averaged in with the cost of existing supplies. But in the long run, deregulation would send gas prices skyrocketing. At least partly for that reason, big gas producers are not beginning to exploit huge new finds in the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, they are waiting for the bonanza of eventual deregulation...
...profitable; the oil is so thick that dilutants often have to be poured into the wells to increase its fluidity so that pumps can suck it out. Now, because of the oil-price bonanza, the Venezuelan government has the cash to buy the sophisticated technology needed to exploit the find. At the same time, the government is being pressured to placate national pride by taking over control of foreign oil concessions before 1983, when most of them are scheduled to expire. Says one foreign oil executive: "We are past the point of shuddering when nationalization is mentioned...