Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Olds saves fuel...
...because of their comparatively sluggish performance, noise and weight. But the energy crisis that started with the Arab oil embargo of 1973 caused GM designers to take another look. The diesel gets anywhere from 15% to 25% more miles per gal. than a gasoline-powered engine. Besides that, diesel fuel, which is essentially highly refined fuel oil, can cost as much as 10? per gal. less at the pump than regular gasoline depending on the area of the country. And the diesel engine, which has no spark plugs or distributor points, requires less frequent maintenance and repair...
...probably could not tell, from quietness or smoothness of ride, that he was traveling in an unconventional auto. Yet some difficulties remain. The most serious is getting the engine to start on a cold morning. Since the whole principle of diesel ignition is to raise the temperature of the fuel mixture by compressing it into a superdense mass in the cylinder, a cold engine block can keep the motor from starting at all. The Olds diesel has a block heater and a "prechamber," where the mixture is briefly heated by a glow plug. The driver turns on the ignition, then...
...Helms, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Utah's Orrin Hatch, flew to the Canal Zone aboard an Air Force plane to listen to the complaints of Americans living there. No sooner did they leave, having ingested what one American businessman in Panama called "an overdose of fuel for their case," than Mississippi's Senator James Eastland arrived for more of the same. At week's end, some 2,000 American Zonians, mainly employees of the Panama Canal Company and members of their families, staged an anti-treaty rally in Balboa Stadium, but Strongman Omar Torrijos...
Inflation also vastly increases investors' desire to avoid risk: people who think they will need every penny to pay rising food, rent and fuel bills will not put their spare cash into an investment, like stocks, that might go down. And inflation gives them an attractive alternative investment by pushing up interest rates. Though interest rates wiggle up and down, they are far higher than in the early 1960s. So floods of investment money are being diverted from the stock market to seek a relatively safe, guaranteed return in bonds and other fixed-interest securities...