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...That required a drawdown in gasoline inventories that, if repeated, could have serious effects later this year unless the Arab embargo is eased. Simon believes that FEO can "cool off the situation within three to six weeks by shifting fuel from states with ample supplies to those that are hard-hit...
Some countries might still attempt to cushion the blow to their economies by sharply devaluing their currencies or trying to expand vastly their exports to other hard-hit nations while restricting their own imports. The result, warned IMF Managing Director H. Johannes Witteveen last week, could be a resurgence of old-fashioned protectionism and a devastating trade...
...region of the nation is particularly hard-hit by cold weather, the Interior Department can order the transfer of fuel from less frozen regions...
...major ideological crisis had developed from economic stress and the breakdown of traditional values among hard-hit social groups. Ideological anarchy threatened when tried-and-true maxims finally proved useless for dealing with everyday reality. Only a central figure in authority could restore some sort of order...
...major ideological crisis had developed from economic stress and the breakdown of traditional values among hard-hit social groups. Ideological anarchy threatened when tried-and-true maxims finally proved useless for dealing with everyday reality. Only a central figure in authority could restore some sort of order...