Word: fueled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...regular and lead-free), two tiled bathrooms, two mechanics' bays and a battery of U-Haul trailers for rent. Most of the cast had never heard of Evanston, much less the A & A, until they found themselves waylaid outside town by a steaming radiator, broken drive shaft, clogged fuel pump or flat tire, and brought here. Usually they are towed in by Jon Lunsford, 40, soft-spoken Mormon and "the Boss," or by his ace mechanic, Cliff Cole, 36, a chain-smoking drinker-turned-teetotaler, who likes to explain that he's "been working on cars...
...they are the chief purveyors of its modern technology and consumer goods. Ford, South Africa's biggest automaker (1977 sales: 42,874 vehicles), and GM together account for 26% of the automotive market. Goodyear, General and Firestone dominate tire sales; Exxon, Mobil and Caltex are leaders at the fuel pumps. Kellogg's cereals are found on 40% of South Africa's breakfast tables, and Otis elevators convey riders in two of every five office buildings. IBM enjoys a near monopoly in data processing, challenged only by Control Data. Even though embargoes prevent U.S. companies from selling South...
...increasing number of scientists maintain that the forests are being slashed and burned at a perilous rate. This is being done both to extend agriculture and, especially in the impoverished developing countries, to use the wood as a fuel. By desiccating and destroying the land, the ruthless felling of trees has still another harmful side effect: it exposes rich topsoil, or humus, and allows the escape of CO2 formerly trapped...
...course, that the book is perfect. Halberstam has set his story in the presidential year 1988, a time of serious decay in America. The fuel shortage has dropped the United States into the second division of world powers, border wars are flaring among the states, and "radical youth" has swung to the right to begin a guerilla war against the blacks who, having attained the nervous prosperity of the middle class, have taken over the military and the FBI. It's all in good fun, really--although Halberstam's vision of America has an underlying serious tone, his tongue seems...
...prices for North Sea crude and of marketing losses in Continental Europe. BP, which has total operating freedom from the politicians in Whitehall, has long emphasized crude production over marketing. The company produces the "blackest" barrel of oil in Europe-that with the largest proportion of low-profit heavy fuel-and early this year closed its biggest refinery, in Rotterdam, for two months because of poor sales. On the other hand, it has done the best job of any Sister in exploiting new oil finds and cutting itself loose from OPEC. As late as 1970, according to Chairman Sir David...