Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The increase in oil prices-approximately 60% since January-will send the developed nations into their worst economic slowdown since the first round of OPEC price gouging touched off the 1974-75 recession. So says the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in its semi-annual forecast covering 24 member...
As gas prices climb and lines form at the pump, more and more harried motorists are taking the plunge. Not off the nearest cliff-but into their own new swimming pools. One of the byproducts of the petro woes is that sales of backyard pools are expected to top 115...
Sierra's Moby Dick-like nemesis was not a great whale, but the Sea Shepherd, a converted British fishing trawler purchased by Cleveland Amory's Fund for Animals. The conservationists' ship spotted Sierra 180 miles off the coast of Portugal and shadowed it toward Oporto, where it...
Its bow packed with 100 tons of cement, the 789-ton Shepherd bore down on the lighter Sierra and struck a glancing blow. Explained Watson: "I tried to take off the harpoon." Then, after making a 360° turn, the avenging trawler opened up to twelve knots and hit again...
Arikha is careful to impose these on his work. Each picture must be done in a day; there are no preliminary studies and, especially, no work from photographs, since photography and painting generalize in different ways. His object, brilliantly realized in some parts of his small and sharply edited output...