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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The confusion was an invitation for price gouging. The National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) demanded $50 per bbl. for some oil it put on the spot market and threatened that if its regular customers did not pay the price, NIOC would refuse to renew its supply contracts when they expire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oil: The Blackmail Market | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

The best future asset is the forthcoming liaison with France's rich dowager, Renault, which will eventually own 22.5% of American Motors stock. Renault's mini Le Car is selling well in AMC showrooms and drawing customers to some of American Motors' own models. Automakers will survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: AMC's Charge | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Policymakers are radically changing their views about unemployment. Even liberal economists no longer consider "full employment" to be a 4% rate of unemployment, but a 5.5% rate. That means, compared with the past, the U.S. is prepared to accept 1.5 million more Americans out of work before Washington policymakers start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Women Shake the Work Force | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

What would happen if Jim Jones hijacked the Love Boat? The villain of the show is Father Dunleavy, whose fanatical cult takes over the transatlantic luxury liner Festivale and holds its passengers hostage for $70 million in ransom. Like Jones, Dunleavy is said to be charismatic, sexy and demonic, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Listing Ship of Sweeps | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

He stood at a Hertz counter in Eugene, Ore., waiting to rent a car. The man who broke Norm Van Brocklin's records at the University of Oregon, who only two days earlier had set a National Football League record by passing for 300-plus yds. in four consecutive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Redemption of Fouts | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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