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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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At the least, the $5 subsidy is destined to set off a whole new surge in the price of the fuel, which in some parts of the U.S. has jumped by more than 30% since last autumn. When news of the subsidy reached Rotterdam, dealers marked up their quoted prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Now the Heating Fuel Furor | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

"Economists, the generals in our war against inflation, are fighting the wrong battle. We are told over and over again that the only cure for inflation is recession. I don't buy that. It's akin to cutting the head off when only a haircut is needed. You...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fighting the Sag in Efficiency | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

Since UNCTAD last met in Kenya three years ago, several Latin American governments as well as Sri Lanka, India and others have moved toward more reliance on free market economics. A resolution calling for the industrialized nations to cancel or suspend debts of the LDCs was quietly suppressed by some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Less Developed, More Divided | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

It is the love story that is laughable. The young man is enamored of Ali MacGraw, who is as pretty an older woman as she was a younger woman and, regrettably, is the same hopeless actress she has always been. It would require talent of a high order to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love Set | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

Beckett is more than lucky in this revival at off-Broadway's Public Theater; he is blessed. Entrusting a play to Irene Worth is like investing in the Krugerrand. She is pure gold. Voskovec, in what amounts to a crawl-on part, is admirable. As for Andrei Serban, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: God ls AWOL | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

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