Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equity, and approved one that will hold the return to 14.78%. Its reasoning: truckers should not get a return greater than the average for manufacturers. That ruling is still sending shock waves through the industry, and O'Neal expects a lawsuit over it. Undaunted, he wants to set maximum and minimum charges and within those limits allow truckers to post any rates dictated by competition...
...Saudi Arabia has helped to make up for the loss of Iran's oil by boosting its own output nearly 30% to some 10.3 million bbl. a day, close to the maximum that it is presently possible to pump from the Saudi fields. Iraq, Nigeria and Kuwait have also increased production somewhat. Right now, total world production is off by about 2 million bbl. a day. That is roughly equal to about 4% of global petroleum consumption, or more than enough to supply all the daily needs of Britain or Canada...
Flood is charged with conspiring to collect $50,000 in bribes and with perjury in his testimony about the payoffs. Flood is liable for a maximum of 125 years in prison and a fine of $156,000 if convicted on all charges...
...ENERGY PRICING front, Carter's maneuverings to raise oil prices--allowing the maximum increases permitted by law and even considering other regulations to further raise prices--are appalling. When discussing deregulation of competitive industries in his State of the Union address, he shrewdly avoided mentioning his efforts to raise prices in one of the most concentrated, oligopolistic, profitable industries in the economy--big oil. Not only do the top eight petroleum refining companies possess 14.5 per cent of the the market, they also control the other stages of the production process. And as anyone who has taken Ec 10 knows...
...Washington home, in a study with an exercise bicycle and a solid "Watergate wall" of cartoons, photographs and awards he has received. Besides his views of his most famous case, Sirica's book will offer insights into the life and times of the tough judge once known as Maximum John. Says he: "I was a dropout from law school twice, so I tell youngsters, if Sirica made...