Word: interest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...direct interest in oil companies, I think it would be fair to say that if prices had been allowed to rise gradually for the past seven years, these "sinful" and "pornographic" profits would have been acceptable. Also, small cars would have been in demand sooner, energy conservation materials would not be suddenly scarce, other forms of energy would be more advanced, oil exploration would be up, and oil imports would not have reached the current high levels...
...concern focused primarily on what effect the boycott of Iranian oil would have on the domestic economy. Would long gasoline lines return? Would prices for fuels of all sorts take another breathless leap? Would inflation surge, interest rates rise and the economy slip deeper into recession...
...prices go as far as $35 per bbl., the impact on oil inflation and the world economy would be severe. U.S. consumer prices would continue rising at a dizzying double-digit pace, forcing the Federal Reserve to stick by its anti-inflation policy of sky-high interest rates much longer than expected. The almost inevitable result: a deeper recession than so far forecast. Despite slumping growth, the nation's oil import bill, which is projected to total $61 billion this year, would leap to $96 billion in 1980. That in turn would keep the dollar's value dropping...
Discussing the issue mainly responsible for black-Jewish tensions today, Farmer said "I think the Palestinians have a right to a homeland." But he added, "I do not think a Black-PLO alliance is in the interest of Black Americans. Legitimizing the PLO may encourage our own would-be terrorists. I'd hoped the urban guerillas of the '60s were behind us." Unfortunately, much of the civil rights fervor of the '60s is also behind us. "Civil rights issues are no longer front-burner in the country...
This is not to say that Jenkins lacks soul; unique moments of pure personal communication are the goal of nearly all jazz expression, and Jenkins' playing, especially with the Revolutionary Ensemble, reaches peaks of almost frightening emotional intensity. But what Space Minds... most reflects is Jenkins' interest in creating the new and exciting structural contexts that can expand the expressive range of jazz improvisation...