Word: needed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy companies will need vast sums to pay for development projects, and much of it will have to come from profits or from the capital of investors attracted by profits. While Exxon, for example, has earned nearly $3 billion so far this year, it has also invested $7.5 billion in energy exploration and development, with 41% of it in the U.S. Partly because prices and profits are up, domestic drilling is booming. The number of oil rigs at work in the U.S. has jumped from 1,929 in April to 2,391 at present and is expected to reach...
...Burg, Egyptian Premier Mustafa Khalil and U.S. Negotiator Robert Strauss, who is eager to get the autonomy talks back on track. At week's end Strauss reported that there had been some progress in the negotiations. The three parties agreed that elections in the West Bank and Gaza need not be carried out under international supervision, but instead would be run by Palestinian and Israeli officials...
...tremendous growth of Government regulation has inevitably meant that more intricate statutes need legal interpretation. Thus the court faces a growing work load. ''There are just more hard and more deserving cases than there used to be,'' says White. To day the court hands down more than half again as many written opinions as it did 25 years ago, and at term's end, the Justices often find ''themselves rushing to finish their drafts. Says Powell: "The pressure of time prevents us from going from chamber to chamber to work things...
...London or Luxembourg, they say, it will only sail away to Singapore or Bahrain, where no controls are likely to be imposed. If the Federal Reserve restricts U.S. bank branches, borrowers will simply shift their Eurodollar business to foreign branches. Bankers also insist that these markets will be needed to lend the developing countries the $50 billion they will need over the next year to pay their oil and industrialization bills...
Retired himself, Jones says the city should make more of an effort to search out sites for elderly housing. "We need it all over the city," Jones explains...