Word: flare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news broke at a time when the President was trying to finish the difficult budget for fiscal 1980 (and suffering from a flare-up of hemorrhoids that forced him to cancel all appointments on Thursday). Administration economists immediately tried to calculate what the damage from the OPEC price hike would be for 1979. They estimated that the cost of petroleum products, ranging from heating oil to gasoline, would rise 3? to 5? a gallon. The inflation rate, now projected at 7.5% for next year, would rise by another .3%. The rate of economic growth, they estimated, would be trimmed...
Like a Scene from Dante, the night sky south of Villahermosa is filled with a fiery glow. It comes from great gouts of flame that flare off natural gas from scores of wells dotting the steamy marshes, scrubs and jungles of the aptly named state of Tabasco in southeast Mexico. Every day, 300 million cu. ft. of gas, enough to supply the energy needs of Vermont for a month, are simply burned off, in part, because the U.S. Government refuses to pay the price that Mexico demands. The huge gas supply and the appalling waste are symbolic of the future...
...said he is not yet sure how much the letter means to him, as he has received "many other letters in support of the dean," including one from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). Bok has not planned any action over this most recent flare of controversy until he speaks to Hiatt and Torrens...
...Syrian army -would clearly threaten the outcome of those negotiations. So far, the Israelis' reaction to the fighting has been limited. They have provided the Christians with medical aid, and presumably some weapons, but they have not bombed and strafed Palestinian and Muslim strongholds as in previous Lebanese flare...
...replied: "Why do you want to set limits on Divine Providence?") Even so, the health factor swiftly eliminated one attractive candidate, Brazil's Aloisio Lorscheider, 54, who had just spent two or three days in a hospital intensive-care unit for what was reported to be a third flare-up of heart trouble in three months. Aides later said he was simply suffering from exhaustion. Lorscheider, who underwent heart surgery two years ago, was well enough to make the trip to Rome, however, and will play an important role in the large, if ideologically divided, Latin American group...