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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's populist tub thumping is also helping to stir up hostility to oil companies. Two days after his nationally televised energy message, with its harsh attack on the oil industry, the President defended his decontrol program before a Democratic fund-raising dinner by saying, "I will not allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Fight to Tax Big Oil | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

The White House has completely ruled out a beef price freeze. Little wonder. It was President Nixon's desperation move to clamp controls on beef prices in 1973 that caused much of today's shortages and high prices. Though cattle producers' prices were frozen, their overhead costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Meat Bites Back | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Ruff, a devout Mormon and father of nine children, comes by his grim views after a checkered career as a college dropout, singer, actor, stockbroker, owner of a speed-reading franchise, natural vitamin distributor and real estate investment teacher. As he concedes, "Some people say that I couldn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Profit of Doom | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

The minnow may wind up choking on the whale. In fact, Brascan may well be making its brassy bid in order to become bigger and thus harder to be swallowed up itself by a hostile outsider. Cash-rich firms like Brascan are commonly candidates for acquisition by some larger company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Woolworth Woo | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Antoine may be a child, but there is nothing childish about the films in which he appears. Through this character, Truffaut has found the perfect means for exploring some profound dilemmas of the heart. In Antoine's restlessness the director sees love's unpredictability, its evanescence, its incompatibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stolen Kisses | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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