Word: oils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would have moved ahead with a modest tax cut, he says, not tried trivial tax reforms like reducing deductible martini lunches. He would have designed an energy policy to encourage new oil exploration and alternative sources, not to tax them. He would have moved harder for deregulation of natural-gas prices. He would have fought for a more restrictive federal budget and he no doubt would have a string of vetoes hanging on his belt. But he still would have called up his friend House Speaker Tip O'Neill for golf at Burning Tree to rib him about...
...July 1978, the People's Republic established full diplomatic relations with Libya, without requiring that country to repudiate its recognition of Taiwan. Most observers saw this as another in a series of Chinese moves to assure a continuous flow of Mideast oil. But more importantly, this was the first instance since the founding of the People's Republic that any nation has been allowed to maintain relations simultaneously with the governments of "both" Chinas. The implications for the United States, currently grappling with this dilemma, are significant for those who fear a "sellout" of Taiwan...
CHINA HAS moved quickly to consolidate these ties. Discussions with four major U.S. oil companies on the exploitation of her offshore resources rattled China traders. Never before has the PRC ventured to negotiate development of its strategic energy supplies. Now they have entered into frank discussions with U.S. technologists and dealers...
Franz Kline's "High Street" is nicely juxtaposed with a smaller oil-on-paper work of 1952. "High Street" which is an excellent example of Kline's work unfortunately spends most of the year in an upstairs Fogg office and is therefore not on view for the general public. The inclusion of the two pieces allows for comparison of the artist's work in two different media and in two different scales...
...Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Sutdies sponsored Taher's lecture, called "World Oil Prices: A Saudi Arabian View...