Word: gas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They clashed with a group of Azerbaijanis who had made a pilgrimage to Qum to see Sharietmadari. Pro-Khomeini guards fired into the air and used tear gas to disperse the crowd. Later, an unidentified sniper killed one man guarding Shariet-madari's house. Subsequently, an Iranian soldier was killed and nine people injured...
...Iran is to become a secure source of energy for them in the future. They are rapidly running out of oil of their own and will need to import large amounts of foreign oil beginning in the early 1980s. Under the Shah, the Soviets profited from cheap natural gas pumped from the Iranian fields through the Caucasus. To Moscow's chagrin, the Khomeini regime quickly canceled the deal after it came to power...
Though advocates of continued price controls often dispute the point, evidence proves that rising gasoline prices reduce consumption. Studies by Economist Alan Greenspan and others show that when prices go up 10%, gas sales from 1.5% to 2% per licensed driver. Argues Greenspan, "It is clear that a very large part of the driving public consciously or unconsciously is quite sensitive to price...
GETTING OUT This play slams the audience with a more personal discussion of equality. It is 24 hours in the life of a Kentucky woman who entered prison as Arlie, a hating girl-bitch who whored, escaped prison and finally murdered a gas station attendant. And it tells the story of Arlene, that same woman, who emerges from a long spell in prison to find that the four walls on the outside can be even tougher to escape than the padded walls on the inside...
Several speakers at the rally said the oil and gas supplies from the Bank will not disappear and can be exploited later when better safeguards for oil spills are available...