Word: globally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Krakatoa's Activity. Even a single major volcanic outburst adds so much dust to the atmosphere that it reduces the amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface; the result can be a brief but noticeable cooling of global climate. After the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, for instance, unusually cool weather was reported in many parts of the world for several years. The evidence is still preserved in the annual growth rings of old trees. Only recently, scientists at the University of Arizona's tree-ring laboratory discovered disturbed rings in California trees, dating back...
...prices have proved premature-so far. Few experts now expect a major price cut soon. Yet all is far from well with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Because world demand for crude oil diminished sharply in recent months, the cartel is feeling the strain of a rapidly building global surplus, and some prices are beginning to crumble around the edges...
...over the quicksands of human nature and power politics, and still lands on her feet. You Can Get There from Here is basically a comeback saga. In 1971. she stumbled badly in an inane and short-lived TV series called Shirley's World. In the role of a global journalist, MacLaine had hopes of playing herself: an openhearted, open-minded, outspoken female. The show's producers wanted a clever career gal who keeps her pantsuit on and plays mediating momma to her contentious male col leagues. The results were a disaster...
...between the oil industry and the middle levels of the government energy management bureaucracy should not continue. Anti-trust action directed at the oil companies and the separation of government agencies and the industry will avoid further exclusion of synthetic fuels from the energy market. The recent quadrupling of global petroleum prices has changed oil industry price fixing from an international annoyance to a vital economic issue...
...administration continues to defend its higher defense spending. Last year, Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger '50 decided not to emphasize the usual reason for increased spending, the Soviet threat, but instead based the higher costs on a theory of American global dominance to "build our peace-structure." This year the Soviet threat will probably be re-emphasized by the secretary of defense with the same notions of a worldwide "peace-structure." Schlesinger's defense for the Defense Department is based on the ridiculous assumption that the U.S. is maintaining worldwide military equilibrium and defending freedom...