Word: oils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice of a segregationist, but of a typical official with very rich constituents. "We are one of the most overemployed areas in the United States," he says. And it is true that there are plenty of jobs for blacks as well as whites in the oil and sulfur companies, in fishing and orange growing. "We try to maintain the standards of those who are here. Everybody in the country complains about federal regulation. We've resisted federal dollars to avoid federal dictatorship...
...gauged not to exceed that given Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev on his last visit to Bucharest. After an open-air limousine ride into the capital amid crowds estimated between 250,000 and 500,000, Hua held private conversations with Ceauşescu, and was expected to visit the oil center of Ploesti, the Black Sea port of Constanta, and the Danube River port of Galati, which is within sneering distance of the Soviet border...
...business side of the trip focused on trade, technology and diplomacy. Rumania was expected to offer the Chinese high-quality drilling equipment in exchange for oil. Although trade between the two countries has increased seven times over since 1960, several new commercial protocols were also reported in the works...
...would be taking steps, in concert with other central banks, to strengthen the greenback, and had already been moving "more actively" in buying dollars to prop up their price. Second, the Administration would step up efforts to get Congress to pass Carter's energy program, which would reduce oil imports and thus stem the drain of dollars out of the U.S. Indeed, Carter personally lobbied House members to work out a compromise to end a fierce dispute over natural gas pricing. Finally, they spoke of both a flat ban on any new federal programs and of cuts in existing...
...Slap quotas or tariffs on foreign oil to reduce imports. Carter can do this by executive order, and he said last week that he "would not hesitate" to use this power...