Word: float
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which the clocks had stopped. Oilmen capped marginal wells, sold their drilling equipment abroad or simply abandoned it in the fields; oilfield hands moved on to Canada or Alaska, or took other jobs. But then, in September 1973, Congress allowed "new" oil-produced above a 1972 base level -to float up to the world price, now about $11 per bbl. Suddenly, the producers, promoters, roughnecks and fortune hunters flocked back in droves to the oldtime West Texas boomtowns -and they are still coming...
PRICE DECONTROL. The Administration will pair its request for excise taxes with a plan to strip away all controls on crude-oil and natural-gas prices. Thus the cost of old oil would float up from $5.25 per bbl. to the world market price, now about $11. Interstate natural gas, now controlled at 28? per 1,000 cu. ft., would be allowed to rise to uncontrolled levels of intrastate gas, now about $1.25. The resulting surge in oil-and gas-company profits would be cut by a special "windfall profits" tax; it would be channeled back to fuel users...
...quality but not in price, for example. Even so, state-administered prices remain low for such essentials as rent, schooling and books. But with shortages of much-desired consumer goods still the eternal Soviet problem, the planners have moved to sop up excess demand by allowing prices to float up anywhere from 5% to 20% in the past year for such luxury purchases as cars, carpets, and privately owned apartments, as well as for meat, fish and other desirable foods...
...Rondo in E-Flat Major, two Mazurkas and the Ballade in G-Minor. Few pianists alive execute Chopin's notes with the grace, precision and bravura of Horowitz. It was astounding in the midst of one set of prodigious figurations after another to hear the melody seem to float up like mist from the keyboard. Horowitz does everything for Chopin except take him seriously as a dramatic innovator. The G-Minor Ballade, for example, is one of the composer's most original and powerful creations. Yet Horowitz turned it into a series of episodes; it was like hearing...
Other poets may be read longer, but Ali showed he's no war monger. They tried to take away his prime, but Ali proved he still could rhyme. He really whupped them good this time. There may be poets greater than Ali, but can they float like a butterfly and sting like...