Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While important decisions were being made abroad at the oil summits, TIME correspondents in the U.S. were sounding out federal policymakers, oil executives, striking independent truckers and hard-pressed motorists. Boston's Jeff Melvoin got the closest view of long lines and short tempers by spending a day at Jim Harrington's Exxon station in nearby Burlington, Mass...
...irritating inconvenience to spend hours waiting for what used to be taken for granted, but somebody would eventually fix things. More gas would appear, as it had before, and all would be well. Last week it became clear that nobody was fixing things very fast. The lines got longer, and the prices went...
...refiner is paid by the wholesaler, who adds a margin averaging 4?. The retailer is then allowed the same margin he got in 1973, plus a 3? inflation increase, a pass-through allowance for higher rental costs and a further price boost for antipollution requirements. All that adds up to about a dime...
...first baseman. Though George Scott recalls memories of golden gloves and home-run rallies, it was apparent last March that Scott's best years had come and gone. He came to spring training in 1978 grossly overweight, and though he lost some pounds this winter, he never got his needle back on true north...
...album title's cue and present tales of travel. "Move On" is Bowie's paean to the vagrant life, his infinitely more urbane version of the Who's "Going Mobile." He uses his dramatic, declamatory singing style to good effect here as in "Heroes," reminding us that he's got one of the great pop voices of our day. "Red Sails" has obscure lyrics--witness...