Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sales are not coming where Detroit's automakers had expected. For all the stress on fuel economy and thinking small that followed the 1973 Middle East oil embargo, the public is now largely spurning the industry's tiniest models. Instead, motorists are buying larger, somewhat gas-thirstier compacts and intermediates that offer a bit more leg room, somewhat more trunk space and in some cases even a touch of high style...
...read Marx," he admitted. "I got stuck on that footnote on page 2." He joined the civil service in 1940 to aid the war effort, leaving his post as an economics don at Oxford; three years later, at age 27, he became chief economist in the wartime fuel and power ministry. At 29 he won a seat in Commons, where he has remained for 31 consecutive years-30 of them either as a minister or shadow minister and 13 of them as Labor Party leader...
...would sell their services to the highest bidders, raising superstar salaries out of sight and tilting the competitive balance of the leagues to the clubs with the most money. Oakland Slugger Reggie Jackson, for one, seemed a super star likely to put himself on the open market. To add fuel to the fears, Los Angeles Dodger Pitcher Andy Messersmith, armed with his December arbitration victory, began entertaining bids last week from at least four teams. Nonetheless, the owners finally "bit the bullet," said American League President Lee MacPhail. At least they chewed on it. Last week in what they called...
History has to a large degree borne out Bennett's perception of the economy. Inflation has forced the University to trim back many operations and to raise more money from outside sources of income. In energy and fuel expenditures, for example, costs rose by more than $3 million despite a 22 per cent cutback in energy consumption during the past fiscal year. Undergraduates have felt inflation in real terms most heavily in the past three years alone; the cost of attending Harvard/Radcliffe has risen from about $5025 to more than...
...Middle East, following last year's Sinai disengagement between Egypt and Israel, there appear to be no new options for solving the more dangerous problems of the Golan Heights and the Palestinians. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat gave new fuel to Kissinger's critics last week by revealing that the Secretary had made a number of secret agreements as part of the Sinai negotiations. One agreement pledges the U.S. to prevent Israel from attacking Syria; another binds the U.S. to bring the Palestinians into negotiations...