Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long before that ultimate day of reckoning comes, however, the oil-burning nations face an immediate threat. The coming winter may be severe, boosting fuel usage and heating bills. And this week the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the 13-nation supercartel that quintupled world oil prices between October 1973 and September 1975, is expected to push them up another notch, effective Jan. 1. Every percentage point of increase will translate into higher inflation, slower economic growth and fewer jobs around the industrialized world...
...fact, only two kinds of fuel are capable of supplying the massive amounts of energy that will be needed to replace the nation's dwindling supplies of domestic oil and gas. They...
Coal: The nation's reserves are enough to last 300 years, and production is expected to rise to more than a billion tons by 1985, from 640 million tons in 1975. But achieving that goal will require some kind of compromise strip-mining legislation that would satisfy environmentalists (who fear that large-scale mining in the Western states would permanently deface the land and cause widespread erosion) without discouraging investment by the coal companies-a formula exceedingly difficult to devise. Moreover, scores of new mines will have to be opened in the East. To avoid health hazards, effective scrubbers...
...October, delegates from U.S. dioceses boldly asked their bishops to renounce the 1884 decree and welcome back the remarried. That appears unlikely, but Dozier's experiment-he scheduled a second ceremony this week in Jackson. Tenn.-may inspire a series of reconciliation days in other parts of the nation...
With such mundane weapons as air conditioners is the cold war for press freedom being fought in India. Nearly a year and a half after Gandhi suspended civil liberties and imposed rigid press controls, most of the nation's 1,300 domestic dailies seem to have given up the battle. Their pages are now filled with fawning accounts of national events, flattering pictures of Gandhi and her ambitious son Sanjay-and, not coincidentally, lucrative government advertising. But two tough, prominent publishers of English-language dailies-Ramnath Goenka of the 44-year-old Express and C.R. Irani...