Word: glut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for the shortfall is Venezuela's refusal to lower crude oil prices below the minimums set by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Another reason is a worldwide glut of petroleum...
...Krensky constantly tour the Federated circuit. In the spring of 1974, for example, they reported that Federated's staff of 40 forecasters and market researchers saw a severe recession coming, and warned all the stores to hold down inventory. Result: not only did Federated's branches avoid the glut of unsold goods that plagued competitors last Christmas, but they had the money and warehouse space to start buying again in early 1975. While other stores were holding distress sales, says Lazarus, "we were able to get back into the market and buy desirable merchandise at desirable prices." A further result...
...danger to the enjoyment of these cartoons are among those who would analyze them--the bewailings of the falling-off of the cartoon market after the demise of the Saturday Evening Post, the endless discussions over drawing versus captions, even, God forbid, analytical tracings of artistic styles--they all glut the air and remove these cartoons into some sort of exalted humorless nether-region. The Saturday Evening Post had lousy cartoons (e.g. Hazel); drawings and captions balance each other out just fine; and no, I don't think Charles Addams is indebted to Salvador Dali...
State prison systems around the country are backing up like flooded sewers, particularly in the South. To alleviate the glut in Georgia's prisons, Corrections Commissioner Allen Ault last month announced that no new inmates would be accepted in any of the state's 37 correctional facilities. Last week the state took an even more drastic step: it released 350 inmates, mainly first offenders with one year or less to serve...
...that he was murdered by a gun because he had a gun. I do not blame him for wanting to protect himself, although I am opposed to all ownership of handguns. I do blame his killer for doing what he did. And I blame the Congress for permitting a glut of handguns to create the conditions that forced my uncle to purchase a gun. Must we all arm ourselves in an attempt to deal with each other...