Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Both Gulf Oil Co. and Sun Oil Co. told the House Government Operations Committee's energy subcommittee that while they plan to hold prices as low as possible, they will not make any promises...
...Gulf official said a mild winter may actually result in a drop of consumer prices, but cautioned Congress not to be optimistic...
...that we cannot long linger in our current state of being neither hostile nor friendly to each other. America's response to SALT and now to Soviet troops in Cuba could set the direction for the new decade's foreign developments. Intelligence officers still believe the Persian Gulf to be a volatile place, but they have now added the Caribbean to their worries, some privately predicting a "Castro government" in Nicaragua by Christmas...
More of an asset are 11,000 ethnic Chinese who made their way from Vietnamese fishing villages and islands to the Chinese coast in their own fishing boats. In Beihai, on the Tonkin Gulf, 7,000 refugees are fishing in the boats that brought them, selling part of their catch to the government. Three thousand others are living in a makeshift camp comprising huts furnished with wooden slat beds, mosquito netting, a small table and, sometimes, a kerosene lamp. Conditions are crowded, but no more so than in the refugee camps of Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong. "The people here...
...with Pontiac and San Francisco, court-ordered busing came to these neighboring cities on Florida's Gulf Coast in 1971. But despite a good deal of hot opposition at first, the Florida programs gamed acceptance and produced results. There were two main reasons for success. The busing plan in both cases was countywide - stretching beyond Tampa to include all the schools of Hillsborough County, and beyond St. Petersburg to all Pinellas County. That made white flight to schools beyond the district limits more difficult. Even more important, the population of both counties was not overly large, about...