Word: occurate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this decade," he writes, "the demand for oil will exceed available supply. A crisis of industrial civilization may well occur long before global supplies are exhausted or even before the day consumption overtakes production." He sees the key to the oil situation not in the supply, which he believes will last several more decades, but in the control of distribution which the "Seven Sisters" of American oil now hold...
...write to correct a number of serious errors of fact which occur in the article on the History Department in the Crimson of April 28. First of all, we have hired two new assistant professors of American history, not as the article states, "two new professors and three assistant professors...
...leaving and a wave of laser technicians and econometricians moving in. But in a city where voters go to the polls only once every two years, and where the switch of one seat on the City Council would mean control of City Hall, the changes in power could literally occur overnight. They have before--Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, the senior member of the City Council, says at least twice in the city's history the balance of power changed in a single election. "Until 1892, the Harvard Yankees, the people with the high fences around their yards, controlled the city...
...bombshell interview on Israeli TV that because Begin's Cabinet had lost the confidence of the public, it should resign. Such a move would force new elections long before the term of the present Israeli parliament runs out in late 1981, but it is unlikely to occur. Weizman was immediately condemned by Housing Minister David Levy as a "deep disappointment," and a clamor for his resignation arose...
...President Carter admitted last week that the cost of living is likely to continue rising sharply for several more months. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller predicts optimistically that inflation will have declined to an average annual rate of 12.8% by the end of 1980. The drop in prices will occur, though, only if the recession is allowed to do its work in an election year. Already various Carter constituencies are screaming as the screws are turning. Even while the President was telling newsmen last week that the recession was "probably" at hand, he was also announcing an additional $75 million...