Word: low
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...able to suppress uprisings by rebellious Turkoman and Kurdish tribesmen in the northern provinces. Although petroleum production rose above 4 million bbl. a day last week, the oilfields around Ahwaz are still largely in the hands of dissident workers' councils, which have held numerous sit-ins to protest low wages and poor working conditions. Some 3.5 million Iranians (one-third of the work force) are unemployed; thousands of them milled around the ministry of labor in Tehran last week, demonstrating for jobs. Meanwhile, the Bazargan government survives by the grace of Khomeini, who spends his days in Qum receiving...
Alternative papers have become so respectable that some of their editors are beginning to feel uneasy. Says Mike Lene-han, 30, associate editor of the Chicago Reader: "As we've become more professional, we don't stoop so low-but we don't soar as often either." At the National Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' annual convention last month at Boston's elegant Parker House, the nonstop chatter about special advertising sections and "upscale demographics" finally touched off a flurry of selfcriticism. "I get this vision of [readers as] some sort of sausage, into which...
...international conference on TB in Orlando, Fla., last month, doctors noted that many carriers of the disease have no outward symptoms. Others suffer from fatigue, weight loss, night sweats or intermittent low-grade fever, which can signify any number of disorders. Only when the patient develops TB's brassy cough does the disease become contagious. Fortunately, the chances of catching TB are low. One study showed that it took as long as six months of daily exposure to become infected...
...limitless price rises hi a commodity so basic to the economy as petroleum, yet the nation has no real alternative to freeing up the price of crude. It seems pointless for Washington to preach to the world about the need to conserve while at the same time maintaining artificially low prices that encourage waste...
SAWHILL: Conservation is the one initiative that the American people can accept, understand and do something about. Low prices for oil have sent the wrong signals to people. Higher prices will convince people that we have a problem...