Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet shipments to the U.S., which in 1972 were only $95.5 million. But restrictions on credit assistance could have a much more serious economic impact. This year the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. has financed $250 million in American shipments to the Soviet Union. Cutting off the flow of credit would crimp industrial exports to the Russians and upset plans for the joint exploitation of Siberian gas and other Soviet resources...
...those parts that are not so warm. But soon much more new construction will employ a "variable-volume" system in which dampers are adjusted by thermostats to vary the amount of air distributed. The dampers simply send warm areas the maximum amount of cool air possible, while lessening the flow to the coolest areas. A new U.S. General Services Administration building in Manchester, N.H., will use 60% less energy than an average building of the same size. Plans call for the north wall to be windowless and insulated more heavily than any of the other walls; the south wall will...
...officials. In each meeting, he made Saudi Arabia's position clear. "We will be more than happy to relax our oil measures if there is reason," he said after a 90-minute meeting with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. His definition of being reasonable: Arab oil will flow...
...Ulster was the first trial by fire for the Tory government of Prime Minister Edward Heath, Britain 's economic crisis has now clearly become the second. A perennial cold-weather cycle of labor un rest, coupled with a diminished flow of oil from the Middle East, threatens Brit ons with their most difficult winter in years. It also threatens to destroy Heath 's anti-inflationary plans for ushering Brit ain into a new era of smooth expansion...
...world's most traded commodity, and as a major source of energy, and a raw material for a whole array of products ranging from plastics to drugs, oil is the most important lubricant for the economies of the developed nations. A halt, or even a minor disruption, in the flow of crude oil to the U.S., Western Europe and Japan, results in major economic convulsions...