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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must continue cracking heads within his own foreign policy team to get an agreement on the final set of tradeoffs to be offered Moscow. Second, he must convince the Soviets that unless they make some concessions, SALT II could fall victim to what may well be a wide-open 1980 presidential campaign...
Panic buying has given producing nations tantalizing inducement to raise their long-term contract prices. On the open or "spot" market, where the small percentage of oil not sold under contract is available, frenzied demand has sent prices up to more than $23 per bbl. Further whetting OPEC greed, Britain has boosted its price for North Sea oil by 2% above the cartel level...
...view, one echoed by various local business and labor chiefs: "A work ethic still exists in this part of the world. People feel they have to give a day's work for a day's pay." Local people commonly speak of the city's Midwestern "openness." Says Hedrick: "I was in North Palm Beach the other day, and, hell, you have to be a second cousin to Jesus Christ if you want to play at the Seminole Golf Club. But the social as well as the economic strata are open to anybody who wants to work...
LARRY BIRD. Watching him play stirs pleasant memories for basketball purists: not only can he shoot and rebound as well as the game's legendary forwards; he is an old-fashioned playmaker, a passer who can look one way and hit the open man breaking for the hoop. Averaging 28.6 points a game, Larry Bird, 22, is the second leading college scorer and stands third in rebounds. What is more, he has led his hitherto obscure team through a schedule that reads like the mail drops on the midnight train to Yuma−Wichita State, Tulsa, West Texas State...
...second female lead as Melissa Forethought, a whorish double agent who gets it from both sides, turns in an admirable performance, especially on the raunchy number, "Coo and Bill Me Later." O'Brien's act is marred only by the fact that he walks around with his mouth wide open too much...