Word: glut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dominica (pronounced Dom-in-ee-ka) will need it all, and probably more. Apart from bananas, limes and, that Caribbean rarity, fresh water from its more than 300 rivers, the island does not have a lot going for it. Even the banana trade has mottled, due to a worldwide glut. Unemployment hovers around 20% and is particularly devastating among youth...
Certainly not from oil or natural gas. Despite the current oil glut, the world's known reserves of both petroleum and natural gas are expected to be declining by the end of the century, and it would be folly to burn what remains to generate electricity. They are far too valuable as essential ingredients for plastics, fertilizers and other chemicals and as fuel for cars, trucks and planes...
...denim wove its way through the social revolutions of the '60s and '70s, clothing everyone from Yippies to Sun Day activists and pushing worldwide production last year to a record 750 million yds. Alas, that was more denim than there were fannies to fill it. Result: a glut of material and sharp cutbacks at the plants that make it, even though sales of jeans, jackets and other finished items have remained high. Wall Street analysts figure that U.S. production will drop this year to about 500 million...
...their future share. The new production, combined with a slowdown in consumption, has put off the day when the world will start running out of oil to the 1990s, or the early 21st century. Far from being menaced by scarcity, the companies just now must cope with a global glut...
Like almost everything else at Harvard. Freshman Week depends at lot on how you approach it. You and about 1600 equally nervous, eager, and thoroughly confused people will be subjected to a week ofn onstop sensory glut. You will see, hear, and do a lot of new things with new people, and even if you never stop moving aroung there'll be thngs that you miss, or will want to miss. There are, of course, several ways to cope with Freshman Week, and the patern you choose will depend on your attitude coming in and how quickly you can adjust...