Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OPEC'S price rises do heavy damage. Third World countries that do not process oil will suffer grievously from slower growth, higher inflation and wider trade deficits. Similar penalties will be inflicted on Western Europe and Japan. The U.S., because it is the biggest customer for OPEC crude, will suffer the brunt of the latest increase. The effects will be felt just as signs of the long awaited economic slowdown are appearing...
...News under Salant also launched the popular TV newsmagazine 60 Minutes, mounted controversial documentaries, and otherwise cultivated an image as the classiest of network news operations. A Harvard-trained lawyer, Salant was initially viewed with suspicion by CBS journalists, who feared he would succumb to commercial pressure from network higher-ups. But he won journalistic respect for his tough, sometimes prickly defense of CBS News against pressure not only from the network's own entertainment-first programmers, but also from White House officials who were outraged over coverage of Watergate and the Viet Nam War. One of his greatest...
King fought these injustices as a moral obligation, Higginbotham said, adding that this obligation went above his respect for the legal process to appeal to higher laws of humanity...
Hopes for an even higher finish died, though, when Princeton gutted out a 15-13, 15-8 victory in the semis. The red-hot Tigers then demolished the Quakers, who had received a bye, for the title...
Partly with such objections in mind, the board recommended that as in-vitro research proceeds, the public must be informed of any evidence that IVF produces a higher rate of abnormal children than natural reproduction. It also proposed three other significant safeguards...