Word: jettison
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...Breakup. Specifically, the legislation would give the Federal Trade Commission authority to supervise the breakup. The companies, which now produce, refine, transport and market their oil, would have 18 months to determine what operations to jettison, and five years to sell them off. A company could become an exploring and producing firm exclusively or a refiner-marketer. Though refining firms would be permitted to keep their service stations and other marketing facilities, they could not buy more. Companies that decided to become either producers or refiner-marketers would have to spin off their pipelines. To handle the lawsuits that would...
...Congress, the President in April 1977 could partially exclude from the domestic price ceiling the oil that will begin by then to flow from Alaska. Such a move would raise overall domestic oil prices at a slightly faster rate. On the other hand, the bill would require Ford to jettison the $2 per bbl. tariff that he has imposed on imported oil, which now fetches about $15 per bbl. in the U.S. Other provisions of the bill would require both automakers and appliance manufacturers to improve the energy efficiency of their products, guarantee loans totaling up to $750 million...
...rivers of Ufa, in Bashkir, where he spent his childhood. It is touching to hear him refer involuntarily to the Leningrad Kirov Ballet as "we." Nearing his peak, today Nureyev dances with the familiar bravado, but also a consistency he did not have ten years ago. Finally willing to jettison his princely plumage, he uncovered a gift for simplicity that makes it seem plausible he will some day be as relaxed dancing with his shoes off as he is now with them on. He makes no predictions about the future except to say that he will be dancing, perhaps...
...easily copied; their opulent fabrics and bias cutting make certain of that. But they may well influence more top-of-the-line ready-made clothes in the U.S. than any other recent showing. Meanwhile, almost anyone can get a feel for the new-old look in accessories. "Jettison your wide belts and get thin ones," advises Robert Fountain, vice president of Lord & Taylor. "Buy high-heeled sandals. The chunky look has gone in earrings, shoes, handbags. Everything is finer, fresher, softer...
...NASA last week ordered a month's delay, until April 16, in the St. Patrick's Day launch of Apollo 16, citing problems with the astronauts' suits, the emergency jettison system and a battery in the lunar lander...