Word: oils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beds, trucks and roads across the country. Never a strong point of the Soviet economy, transportation became a major national problem as a late spring delayed necessary repairs to the system. Energy was also a problem. Parts of the country suffered from a cutoff of Iranian natural gas, and oil production fell short of planned output...
...output of 57 products that are basic to the Soviet economy, and 23 were down from the same period in 1978. Such industrial necessities as steel, chemicals, fertilizer, cement, nonferrous metals and forest products were below last year's production levels; such dietary staples as milk, vegetable oil and butter were also produced in smaller quantities...
...having second thoughts about the contract. He feared France would not only be contributing to nuclear proliferation but would be blamed for intensifying tensions in the Middle East. But breaking the $350 million contract and risking Iraqi ire was unthinkable. Iraq is France's second largest supplier of oil, and the reactor deal has also helped keep the French trade deficit from spiraling higher...
Like Doctor Dolittle's pushmi-pullyu, the chamber orchestra is a curious beast that faces in two directions at once: toward the intimacy of the string quartet and toward the richness of the symphony. It stands between both, the way a watercolor stands between an engraving and an oil painting. Or, as Conductor Dennis Russell Davies says, the way baseball stands between tennis and football: "There are just a few players, each one is a virtuoso, and all are involved in every moment of what's going...
From Saudi Arabia to Sumatra, from Nigeria to the North Sea, up comes the oil. And every day, 24 hours a day?at a rate of 30,000 gallons per second?the petroleum-thirsting world swills it back down in desperate, energizing gulps...