Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempt to support Castro's faltering economy, the Soviet Union has been buying much of the coffee Cuba grows at a price higher than on the world market. In fact, Cuba has even been accused in some anti-Castro quarters of mixing imported coffee with home grown and then selling the spurious blend to the Russians. Be that as it may, Cuba does import cheaper coffee for domestic consumption...
...bumpy stretch of gasoline shortages and substantially higher prices may well be lurking just around the bend for American motorists. That was the message coming from Washington and the nation's oil industry last week. The threat of scarcities is being raised by the political upheaval in Iran, which has virtually shut down that country's vast oilfields and is reducing supplies worldwide. Last week Energy Secretary James Schlesinger warned that unless Iran's wells are pumping again by April 1-which is unlikely, given the complexity of the job of resuming production even if the political...
...roguish. Down, with her blue-glazed eyes and magnificent body, is delightful, but her part as Connery's adoring partner is not. Sutherland plays the Cockney criminal-type who helps pull off the job, but his accent sounds American even to Americans, bereft of music, charm or higher tones. Everyone else in the cast is ugly or stupid or both...
...antitrust exemption granted by Congress in 1948 truckers have been allowed to set their own rates, and they have prospered greatly. Indeed, over the past eight years the eight largest truck lines have earned an average of more than 20% a year on shareholders' equity, a return higher than that enjoyed by the leading firms in such high-profit industries as oil refining, auto, drug and computer manufacturing...
...require legislation-either Kennedy's bill or one that the ICC and the Administration are drafting-and it will be hard fought. Truckers contend rate freedom will lead to cuts that will bankrupt small lines, which will be gobbled up by big ones that will then raise rates higher than ever and cut off service to remote towns. A new truckers' lobby called ACT (for Assure Competitive Transportation) has circulated petitions calling for O'Neal's resignation, a demand that Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons echoed in a letter to President Carter in mid-January. But Wall...