Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iran, Libya, Nigeria and Algeria planning to charge a minimum of $28.50 per bbl. and perhaps $30 or even more, while other cartel members said that they intended to go no higher than $24. All in all, the rises add up to a big increase over the OPEC official maximum of $23.50 that had prevailed since summer, the $18 that Saudi Arabia, the cartel's leading producer, had posted until two weeks ago, and the $12.90 that OPEC averaged a year...
While Macleod insists on an 18-minute maximum, in former times sermons would run more than an hour. Ministers commanded an authority that would be unthinkable today. They could give full play to docere, delectare, flectere (to teach, to delight, to move), the three purposes of preaching once listed by St. Augustine...
...biggest producer with 30% of the cartel's output, was able to exert a moderating influence. More and more cartel members, and even factions in the royal family itself, view the desert kingdom's traditional support for the U.S., and Washington's repeated pleas for maximum OPEC output at the lowest price, as ultimately damaging to the producing states. Anti-American rioting in Iran has made involvement with the U.S. seem even more unwise. Such oil ministers as Iraq's fiery Tayeh Abdul-Karim and the Emirates' Mani Said Utaiba argue that it is stupid...
...against 35 large oil companies for violating the complex, controversial federal price regulations. So far the DOE has won consent decree settlements amounting to $660 million from Kerr-McGee, Cities Service, Phillips, Gulf, Mobil and other companies. They agreed to settle by posting lower future price increases than the maximum allowed under Government regulations. Getty also chose this method for the remaining $50 million of the consent decree. Now the pipeline is so loaded with pending claims cases that Government lawyers are requiring the companies to stand in line to negotiate settlements...
...trim, but had to give up working with weights because his broadening shoulders only exaggerated his stature or, at 5 ft. 7 in., his lack of it. There is nothing much he can do about his hearing. Like Townshend's, it has been impaired by long exposure to maximum amplification. "When it's noisy," he says, "I have to lip-read...