Word: filliperative
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...estimates are that the area harbors some 79 trillion cubic feet of gas or about one-fourth of the total U.S. reserves. The pipelaying splurge began sometime last year when natural-gas companies, who form the nation's sixth largest industry, found demand outpacing supply. Then came a fillip from the Federal Power Commission in Washington. Ruling that the gas companies should bring the Louisiana deposits ashore individually, the FPC scotched the plans of a large group of 30 oil companies headed by Shell to build a single, cooperative system...
...with growing curiosity as he collected an improbable mess of dismembered store-window mannequins, overturned cornflakes boxes, scattered cigarettes and disarrayed lingerie, and began to stuff it all into a gutted TV set. With hammer and saw, glue and plaster, Scarfe concocted a many-armed "assemblage." For a final fillip, he managed to attach a serving of spaghetti- which was no mean trick, since the soft strands kept slithering off the plate under the hot photographic lights...
There is also a worldwide clamp on capital flow acrosrnational borders. This trend is doubly disturbing because foreign capital is usually targeted on strategic investment projects and provides a particular fillip. The $7.2 billion that Europeans invested in the U.S. up to 1914 financed most of the nation's railroads and canals, and many of its oilfields and mines; the $12.8 billion that the U.S. sent in Marshall Plan aid rebuilt much of postwar Europe. Now, to fight the battle of the balance of payments, the world's two major exporters of capital-the U.S. and Britain-have...
...Texas-gothic farmer, who shoots his deserted farmhouse, repossessed by the bank. They speed away from their jobs in a succession of stolen cars-their Ford coupes, Essex tourer and Marmon Saloon are virtually living members of the cast. The sound track adds a further fillip to the humor; the exuberant banjo picking of Earl Scruggs playing Foggy Mountain Breakdown suggests a comedy chase...
...huddled with Sant Fateh. After 2½ hours of talks, the Sant signaled his acceptance by taking a glass of orange juice from Sardar Hukam, thus breaking his fast. Under the deal, Mrs. Gandhi will arbitrate the Sikh demands after next February's national elections. As an added fillip, she promised to set up separate judicial and executive systems for the Sikh and Hindu states...