Word: interiorized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really knows how much oil and natural gas lie beneath the choppy Atlantic off the U.S. East Coast. But a year ago, some 40 oil companies were willing to pay $1.1 billion just for the right to find out. They bought leases from the Department of the Interior on half a million choice acres of the Baltimore Canyon. The tracts lie 50 to 90 miles off the coast, far enough over the horizon so that drilling rigs would be invisible from the shore; the main lease area is opposite Atlantic City, N.J. But before drilling could begin, a federal district...
...Wednesday, this must be Living, the Times's once-weekly, 20-odd-page insert packed with ads and enthusiastic articles on food, wine and related pleasures. On Thursdays Sulzberger's diversion is Home, a similar free-standing section celebrating furniture, interior decoration and gardening Fridays it is Weekend, a guide to entertainment and the arts in the world s capital of culture. Sulzberger stays up late with each of his three night visitors, savoring the recipes, shopping tips and restaurant reviews. The Times, as a new advertising slogan boasts, is now MORE THAN JUST THE NEWS...
...manufacturers are pushing nearly every name plate they have into the field. Some, like the Oldsmobile Cutlass-the nation's most popular model this year-are not only being reduced in size and weight but also redesigned with boxy, hatchback-like profiles in order to retain interior passenger and cargo space. Oldsmobile will market the first mass-produced diesel models in U.S. auto history. Some lines will be scrapped altogether; Ford will drop its dated, slow-selling Comets and Mavericks and replace them with new compacts, the Fairmont and Zephyr, that will sport a lean European profile and rectangular...
...repairs. As it happened, the line had just resumed limited operation after a ten-day shutdown caused by the most serious of its start-up accidents. At Pumping Station 8, 38 miles from Fairbanks, a pipeline leak led to an explosion that killed one worker and injured five others. Interior Department officials last week concluded that poor training and a mixed-up chain of command were the causes of the PS 8 tragedy. Said an investigator: "Three or four people did some really dumb things...
...lawyer by training, Luce had had limited experience with utilities. He was administrator of an Oregon power company in the 1960s and later showed managerial talent as an Under Secretary of the Interior during the Johnson years. He seemed to possess the kind of even-keeled candor needed to deal with irate customers and fretful stockholders...