Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion pipeline was under construction when Schlesinger abruptly vetoed the deal because Mexico's price of $2.60 per 1,000 cu. ft. was higher than the $2.16 being charged by Canadian suppliers. López Portillo vowed to burn off the gas and leave the oil in the ground rather than sell it to the U.S. The pipeline was rerouted to the industrial city of Monterrey, and as a further gesture of defiance, the Mexicans decided to inaugurate the "gasduct" on March 18, the 41st anniversary of Mexico's nationalization of its oil fields...
...issue has already been injected into 1980 presidential politics. Staking out political ground to the right of Jimmy Carter, California Governor Jerry Brown has supported the movement for a convention. Over the indignant opposition of many fellow Democrats in his state, he has arranged for speaking engagements around the country to promote the convention...
...survival rations and agreed to pay Edward Barniak, an upstate farmer, $1 a ton to haul them away. Barniak should do rather well on the deal, since he gets the medicines and other supplies, as well as 7,000 tons of crackers. Even they have a use. After being ground up, they are fed to his cattle, which so far have suffered no ill effects. Barniak's biggest problem is finding all the shelters. Not even city officials know where some of them...
Only the surprising performance of Princeton's 6-ft. 11-in. center Tom Young, which included four rejections without ever leaving the ground (that must be an NCAA record), added sparkle to an otherwise lackluster performance by both squads...
...author seriously intend to suggest that Eisenhower, Dulles and Kermit Roosevelt were moved by "moral fervor" to save "democracy" for Iranians, rather than to preserve control of Iranian oil for American companies? It is important to recall that Mossadegh enjoyed overwhelming popular and parliamentary support, and that the ground "slid from beneath his feet" largely because the United States and Great Britain organized a boycott of nationalized Iranian...