Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Severe gasoline shortages compound the effects of the power cuts. Last year the Soviet Union signaled its displeasure with Sandinista waste and inefficiency by reducing oil deliveries. By Christmas, motorists were camping overnight in mile-long queues for the chance to buy 5 gal. of gasoline. Angry customers overpowered the attendants at some Managua service stations and helped themselves to the fuel...
...Greenwich Country Day School and going off to Andover and Yale, Dole was walking to the public schools of Russell, Kans., and working his way through the University of Kansas at Lawrence and Washburn University of Topeka. As Bush went to prove his manhood in a West Texas oil field with a family stake of $500,000, Dole was serving as county attorney of Russell, where an unhappy part of his job was approving welfare payments to his grandparents...
Campaigns, according to the civics texts and good-government groups, are supposed to be about issues and ideas, ideology and vision. Focusing on personality and manner is trivial. Yet this year, the fight for the Republican nomination involves something far more important than artificial differences on oil-import fees or taxes. It is a struggle between styles and temperaments that go to the heart of the kind of President each would...
...nationally televised news conference, Reagan also said he had "every confidence" in the personal integrity of embattled Attorney Gefneral Edwin Meese III. But he said he could not comment on reports of the investigation of Meese's role in a proposed Middle East oil pipeline...
...that people are not getting ahead economically; they can't buy the house; they can't afford the education. It's more jobs, more work, less income, more debt." In any case, Gephardt does not have the luxury of tailoring his appeal to New England voters. Even though an oil-import fee is wildly unpopular in these frigid climes, Gephardt must hold his ground in a belated effort to demonstrate ideological consistency...