Word: oils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...room country store, three worn couches, a board placed on milk cases, and a few wooden chairs make a circle around a Buckeye 135 wood stove. The room is filled with people. The walls are lined with canned goods and staples like salt, sugar, cornmeal and motor oil. A blue denim jacket hangs from one shelf, and a few feet below it hangs a new white T shirt with green lettering that proclaims NOT BY A DAM SITE. A middle-aged woman with a hesitant voice and bright blue eyes is speaking: "I'm sure there are Indian graves...
...important state visit to Mexico. No sooner had he arrived there than President José LÓpez Portillo welcomed him with a public scolding. In the midst of all this, Carter learned that two Persian Gulf sheikdoms were taking advantage of the Iranian crisis to raise their oil prices 7%, a blow to his antinflation campaign...
...leaders had many serious issues to discuss−from oil prices to migrant labor and drug smuggling−and before one session of the talks formally began, Carter asked for ten minutes alone with LÓpez Portillo. The President candidly told his host that it was "counterproductive if we overemphasized our differences, particularly our historical differences, as opposed to our commitment to efforts to resolve them...
...specifics the next day at Los Pinos, Lopez Portillo's official residence. Carter said he was ready to reopen negotiations over natural gas purchases in formal government-to-government bargaining sessions. Said LÓpez Portillo: "Let's get on with it." As for buying more oil from Mexico, Carter did not press for a speedup of production, but did express U.S. willingness to increase its purchases whenever Mexico could deliver. "We got past all the recriminations," said a White House aide...
...water, and possibly electricity to the Med School, the School of Public Health, and related Harvard facilities in the Back Bay area of Boston, Adams said. Despite the large capital expenses, the plant will probably save money in the long run because it consumes 20 per cent less fuel oil than the 70-year-old power plant the University now operates, Adams added...