Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change has not only afflicted all oilmen but has also left them open to new forms of criticism. All have been tarred with the same vague but pervasive public suspicion that they have conspired to create the shortage-a charge for which there is no evidence-or at minimum have taken advantage of it to enrich themselves by raising prices. Much of the attack focuses on Exxon's executives, ranging downward from Canadian-born Chairman John Kenneth Jamieson (see box following page). Such men are several light-years removed from the vulgar, wheeler-dealer, overnight Texas oil millionaires of popular...
...amount of new building, however, will head off the political onslaught that the oil industry faces in the U.S. At minimum, Exxon will have to put up indefinitely with much tighter federal regulation. For instance, under a Government allocation program, it must sell 140,000 bbl. of crude a day to American competitors whose refineries are less well supplied than Exxon...
...Bade County, Fla., and other areas last week adopted Oregon-type rationing schemes that will allow motorists with even-numbered license plates to buy gas on even-numbered dates, and those with odd-numbered plates to buy on odd-numbered dates. Some states have begun requiring a $3 minimum purchase...
...employers for their workers and will require no new taxes ("We must always make sure that our doctors will be working for their patients and not for the Federal Government"); and 2) a welfare-reform program that will rely heavily on a still-to-be-defined guarantee of a minimum income for all families. Nixon's only surprise was his statement that Middle East oil ministers plan to meet soon to consider lifting the embargo against exports to the U.S. Other U.S. officials confirmed that he referred to a previously announced Feb. 14 meeting in Tripoli (see ENERGY...
...solve the problems, the coal companies have had to put a new emphasis on mechanization and strip mining. Using giant shovels, the companies can peel back the earth and gouge out the underlying coal with a minimum of workers and a maximum of productivity. Stripping, mainly in Appalachia, now accounts for about half of all U.S. coal production, and the proportion is likely to rise. All the major companies have lately bought or leased rights to hundreds of millions of tons of coal that lie close under the plains of the Dakotas and Montana, the semidesert of New Mexico...