Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That left two outfits in the running. The first was the El Paso Co., one of the nation's largest gas transmission firms (1976 sales: $1.4 billion). It advocated an "all-American" solution: building a gas pipeline alongside the existing Alaskan oil pipeline to the port of Valdez, where the gas would be liquefied and shipped in special tankers to California...
...that, the Hungary trip, which resulted from five years of negotiations, was a well-calculated breakthrough. Graham's only previous preaching in a Communist nation was a low-key appearance ten years ago in nonaligned Yugoslavia. The Danube tour was also a historic occasion for Graham's official host, Hungary's Council of Free Churches. It represents 50,000 Protestants, who are not only overshadowed by the major Reformed and Lutheran bodies in Hungary, but very much a minority in a country that was two-thirds Catholic at the time of the Communist takeover...
...wooing the Vatican, and since last year all Catholic bishoprics in Hungary have been filled. Next week three top-ranking U.S. Catholic bishops will arrive for a good-will tour. One of Kádár's major goals, it appears, is to acquire a "most favored nation" trade status with...
...with a driver's license and a few dollars can safely savor some of the adrenaline-pumping, gut-clutching fever of Grand Prix racing-on a minitrack, in a scaled-down Formula 1 speedster. Le petit Grand Prix is already one of the hottest pastimes in California, the nation's begetter of vogues, and is spreading east. The two businessmen who laid out the first track in Malibu 29 months ago have since sold their company to Warner Communications Inc. for $4 million...
...wonder Powell is unhappy. The nation's press has delivered almost daily truckloads of damning evidence about Bert Lance's banking habits and kept the story alive long after Powell and his boss thought they had squelched it. In the press secretary's view, some of the reportorial digging around Lance has been gratuitous, overplayed and underresearched...