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...intended for a British army patrol. The accident prompted yet another embarrassed apology by the terrorists. They realize such mistakes cost them support, even among sympathizers in Ulster's 500,000-member Catholic community, and stiffen the determination of the Protestant majority, 1 million strong, to continue keeping a lid on the minority...
...will they? "Iran and Iraq might surprise everyone and agree to keep a lid on production," cautions Peter Beutel, an oil-market analyst for the Manhattan commodities firm Elders Futures, Inc. Another variable is Saudi Arabia's strategy, says G. Henry Schuler, an energy specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Schuler points out that in 1987, when oil sold for $20 per bbl., Riyadh increased its production to drive down the price and deprive Iran of its war chest. "But once the war is over, then the Saudis don't have any reason to keep...
While there is no lid on how much he can spend on his Senate campaign, federal law limits direct expenditures in the presidential campaign to the federal campaign funds--divided equally between the major party candidates...
...will let interest rates go in its effort to slow the economy and ward off inflation. The answer will have immense political as well as economic ramifications. In this presidential election year, the Republicans will jawbone the Fed, which now consists solely of Reagan appointees, to keep a lid on interest rates, while the Democrats will watch intently for any signs of partisan policymaking...
...decline of OPEC. The Republicans have a vested interest in maintaining wide-open oil production, because to the American voter, the drop in gasoline prices is probably the single most prominent economic improvement over the Carter administration. More importantly, if OPEC were to regain power and put a lid on oil production, prices could soar and pull America back into an inflationary spiral...