Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Basic Programs. Although some economists saw the trend as only temporary, inflation was climbing again and unemployment remained high (8.4%). A natural-gas shortage of about 14% is predicted for the winter. Gasoline and fuel-oil prices will almost certainly rise, regardless of last week's compromise between Ford and congressional leaders on a gradual lifting of price controls on most domestic oil (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). The showdown over the President's $60 billion deficit federal budget is approaching as the big appropriations bills for basic programs like defense, foreign aid and aid to education reach the floors...
...same time, the Third World was undergoing a profound change. Especially with the staggering rises in the cost of fuel and food, the developing countries have split into two categories: those, that can generate wealth by exporting natural resources and those desperately poor countries that still have to import both oil and food grains. Thus oil has transformed nations like Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria and the Arab sheikdoms into a kind of plutocracy of the poor. Countries like Zaire and Zambia (copper), Morocco (phosphates) and Malaysia (rubber) also gained large amounts of foreign exchange. Still a third group, including South Korea...
...other states for natural gas at uncontrolled intrastate rates and then have the gas transmitted through interstate pipelines. That will mean paying three times the controlled interstate rate, but at least the companies will be able to stay open rather than being forced to close down for lack of fuel...
...hand, Meeker lifted off and hovered briefly, trying to draw the guns away from his friend. Realizing that he could no longer help him, Meeker raced for the Austrian border four miles away. Blood from his wounds made his maps unreadable, and the damaged turbine gulped twice as much fuel as it was supposed to. Luckily, Meeker knew his way through the difficult terrain and dangerous wind currents. He set the chopper down where he had landed many times before, next to a hospital at Traunstein, 15 miles inside West Germany. He had 80 seconds of fuel left...
...that the annual rate of price boosts has been in double figures. Food prices jumped a startling 1.7% in July, mainly because of hefty increases in meats, poultry and vegetables. Gasoline prices climbed even faster: 4.3%, or an average of 2.4? per gallon. The cost of fuel oil, used cars and medical services also continued moving up at a double-digit annual pace...