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Because energy is the lifeblood of a modern industrial society, the Soviets will undoubtedly make an all-out effort to tap their hard-to-get reserves. It remains to be seen, though, whether the country can accomplish the job in time to avert serious shortages. Concludes Jack Ray, a Tenneco petroleum specialist who is often in the Soviet Union: "With brute strength and will power they'll muddle through, just as they always...
...essentially British Shawcross adopted the United States, and his experience with Sideshow hardened an already-suspicious nature. Disturbed by President Carter's recent call for increased CIA activities, he declared that the Freedom of Information Act--the lifeblood of his work--must be broadened. Angered by the Supreme Court's decision to keep Kissinger's memoirs under wraps in the sacred tombs of the Library of Congress, he hopes that other people will do for the rest of Kissinger's work what he did for Cambodia...
Some showed up to woo votes--state Senate candidate George Bachrach bounced from group to group introducing himself. And others were there to shoot the political breeze that is the lifeblood of many Cantabrigians...
...feel the guy at the terminal next to me becoming existential too as we are engulfed by the black screen that has been saying "TRY LATER" for the past hour. Die. December 27: This is the day. The day that the reality of the project starts to sap the lifeblood out of your vacation. I see a friend in the city, a veteran of this madness who handed in half his project on notebook paper. He says, "I just could not stand in line waiting all the time, kid, it's a matter of integrity...
...worst peril is the damage that the Iranian crisis can do to the international financial system that is the lifeblood of the world economy. Nearly all the currency printed or minted by the U.S. remains physically inside the U.S., but an estimated $750 billion in legal claims on that money are held by foreign governments, corporations and individuals as so-called Eurodollar accounts overseas. Many of those accounts, including the bulk of the frozen Iranian assets, are located in the foreign branches and subsidiaries of U.S. banks. The funds are not under the jurisdiction of Washington...