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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually the gap was quite small, but still too wide to be bridged last week. Despite three days of hard bargaining over arms limits, Vance and Gromyko were unable to resolve all of the relatively few issues still blocking SALT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: SALT: The Home Stretch | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...such abundance, OPEC nations might not have agreed to such a large price increase if Iranian production had not been disrupted. When rebellion broke out there in September, output fell from 6 million bbl. a day to less than half a million. Though Saudi Arabia tried to fill the gap with its own surplus, that did not suffice. "The drop in production in Iran was the important factor in the price boost," says a U.S. Treasury official. "The Saudis are able to hold off the price hawks as long as they have excess capacity. They couldn't push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dance of the Oil Dervishes | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...information came from Mark Weiss of Queens College in New York City and his associate, Ernest Aschkenasy. Both are highly regarded experts. They helped find the erasure marks in the 18½-minute gap on one of Richard Nixon's White House tapes. Using a computer to assist them, Weiss and Aschkenasy examined a tape recording of the sounds transmitted from a motorcycle policeman's radio that happened to have been left on during the shooting. The tape had been available to the Warren Commission, but the science of acoustic analysis was not then sufficiently sophisticated to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Fourth Shot? | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...Times says Hillary is "the one candidate who will best fill the vast gap that will be left in the Senate and within the Democratic Party by the retirement of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan." Did we expect Republican Rick Lazio to be the one candidate who could best fill that gap within the Democratic party? No. The Times' editorial board was not deciding between Lazio and Clinton at all, but was applying its solemn rubber stamp to a foregone partisan conclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary's First Step to a Second Clinton White House | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...such penalties. More and more motorists are pulling into self-service stations to tank up with the cheaper and peppier leaded fuel, even though doing so ruins their catalytic converters and makes the cars bigger polluters than ever. The EPA fears that decontrolling prices will merely widen the gap between the cost of leaded and unleaded gas and encourage more drivers to skirt the law that requires unleaded in new cars. Says one DOE official about the panoply of contradictory regulations: "There is no doubt that we have really screwed things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Oil's Pinch at the Pump | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

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