Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Mattie Schultz was caught in a San Antonio market, slipping $15 worth of ham, sausage and butter into her purse, she had a simple explanation: "I was hungry. I was desperate." Mrs. Schultz, 91, subsists on $233 a month, from Social Security and her late husband's military pension. She had once saved $5,000, but all except $10 was taken from her in 1973 by a swindler. Last month, after paying her rent and utilities, she had nothing left for food...
...that those mile-long gasoline lines are evaporating and Government officials are cautiously speculating that there may be enough heating oil to go around next winter, is the petro-squeeze of 1979 coming to an end? Not if OPEC can help it. To keep the market squeaky tight and prices high, a growing number of oil-producing states are either cutting back on exports or threatening...
...cutbacks would reach some 1 million bbl. daily. That is precisely the amount by which Saudi Arabia last month boosted its own production in an effort to stabilize prices. The reductions would give a renewed upward push to prices worldwide, notably on the all-important spot market. That is a loose telephone network of traders who buy and sell the small amounts of crude that are not locked up under long-term contracts...
Other islands date their history to more recent times. Long Island was a huge tuberculosis hospital, its 1200 beds once full. The market for its service has decreased, but parts of the hospital complex still are in use. Deer Island is famous for another institution--The Deer Island House of Correction. It's not exactly Alcatraz, but there could be worse locations from any viewpoint. Bird Island? Well, it's not there anymore. In its place is Logan Airport...
...there is nothing neo under the sun. The reason these men are labeled neoconservatives is simply that every one of them began flying by flapping his left wing. Typically, when Kristol graduated from City College in New York in 1940, he was a young socialist. Today he defends the market, though not quite as staunchly as Steinfels asserts...