Word: globally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longterm, "over-the-horizon" forecasts of future global problems...
...their land covered by the supports as possible. In addition, record-breaking wheat crops were harvested worldwide last year, cutting into American farmers' export markets. The U.S. consumes only about two-fifths of its wheat crop, relying on foreign buyers to gobble up the rest. Another bounteous global grain crop is forecast for this year, which will further soften demand for U.S. wheat. The Soviet Union, for example, is likely to gather in a near record 215 million tons of grain this year, just 4% less than last year's peak...
...return for such pledges, the North asked for guaranteed access to stable supplies of oil and other raw materials, protection against arbitrary nationalization of foreign investments, as well as a forum for the continuing discussion of global energy problems, including...
...banker who can write is unusual enough. A banker who starts writing novels in jail, and transmutes global finance and oil politics into plausible thrillers about world economic collapse -well, there is only one: Paul Erdman. His third novel, The Crash of '79, is in its 25th week on the bestseller lists, has been bought by Paramount for a movie, and is diverting not only ordinary readers but also corporate executives and government officials, who assure each other that its forecast of doom will not come true. Certainly not. Of course...
...book apart from other current bestsellers is its eerie believability. Out of reams of newspaper and magazine clippings, chats with former banking cronies, Middle East experts and even a nuclear physicist, Erdman has fashioned a grisly tale of international power politics and financial double-dealing that bring on a global economic calamity...