Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case, Mobutu's army, sapped by desertions and flagging morale, has done little to dislodge the rebels. Facing shortages of aviation fuel, trained pilots and transports, Zaïre's forces are hard put to supply the 3,000 government troops now in Shaba, nearly 1,000 miles from the capital in Kinshasa...
...that the U.S. political system and the American temperament are not well tuned to solve. Since the birth of the nation, energy and the United States have been almost synonymous terms: metaphorically, in the boundless vitality of the American people; literally, in the seemingly inexhaustible supplies of cheap fuel that made possible the transformation of a handful of impoverished colonies into history's richest nation. Frontier mythmakers celebrated the idea that Americans could summon limitless supplies of energy for whatever needed doing, most notably in the tales about Paul Bunyan, who could harness his ox Babe to straighten...
Steve Rosenthal, lecturer in sociology at Boston University, who presided over the meeting, said that Wilson's hypothesis regarding the existence of genes for behavior would fuel existing racist propaganda...
...could have been Cuban soldiers, but they could also have been Belgian or other European mercenaries who have fought with the Katangese in the past. The Zaïrian army reportedly put up little resistance as the rebels seized one town after another; indeed, Kinshasa was so short of fuel that it had difficulty flying reinforcements into the fighting area. By late last week, some reports said that the invaders were within 90 miles of the crucial mining center of Kolwezi...
...billion, more than ten times the anemic January increase; income from wages and salaries climbed at an annual rate of $12.9 billion, the largest increase for any one month. One reason: working hours lengthened as factories that had been shut down in January by the cold and fuel shortages resumed full operation. Earnings rose even faster than prices in February, so the non-farm worker's "real" income-adjusted for inflation and higher taxes-climbed one-half...