Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of the reason for high heating costs in New England is the lack of a local oil refinery and the subsequent high costs of transporting fuel oil into the area...
...radicals denounced their political enemies. Last week, the former persecutors had clearly become victims. Within days after the arrest of the country's top radicals (TIME, Oct. 25), China had been roused to full fighting pitch against them. The marches and mass rallies seemed carefully designed to fuel the myth of a spontaneous, popular uprising against the discredited radical "antiparty clique," as well as to build up a wave of support for Hua Kuo-feng, who was officially proclaimed last week as Mao Tse-tung's successor in the role of Party Chairman...
...spectacular disaster that befell the coal industry after World War II should have served as a warning. Railroads and ships switched to diesel. Homeowners converted their furnaces to natural gas or fuel oil. Mines closed, and those that stayed open watched the price of their coal drop to $2.95 per ton. But who remembers the bust now that the boom is back? Today coal supplies one-fifth of the nation's total energy requirements. This elementary fact, says Caudill, permitted mineowners to run up the price from $9 to $35 per ton in 50 days after the Arab...
Because the University could not fully control the heat in several of the older Houses, pipes froze and burst, causing over $50,000 worth of damage. Savings on fuel costs were almost completely offset by the costs of the repairs...
...Lebanese capital. Twenty-five miles to the south, Syrian armor drove to within range of Sidon, the only significant port and supply depot still in Palestinian-leftist hands. The two-part attack, if it succeeds, will reduce Palestinian-held territory to three enclaves cut off from ammunition and fuel. If that happens, reports TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, "the war in effect will be over, though real peace will be a long time coming...