Word: ores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past, heroin was concentrated in the nation's largest cities. Now arrests, evidence of addiction and heroin-related crime are showing up more often in smaller cities. As examples, DuPont mentioned rising addiction in Des Moines, Eugene, Ore., and Jackson, Miss...
...Everybody's, a Manhattan secondhand shop, clerks are becoming used to hordes of shoppers stampeding through the doors each Thursday-the day a fresh supply of items goes on sale. Business has been so good lately at the Junior League Bargain Tree in Portland, Ore., that the store closed down one Saturday for lack of merchandise. At the flea market on the grounds of Miami's Tropicaire Drive-In Theater, stalls are booked an unprecedented two weeks in advance. The latest trend in shopping, apparently, is the shift to thrift...
...Fourth World. The old Third World became a more exclusive, OPEC-led grouping, limited to those nations that are exploiting their rich mineral or agricultural resources. Emboldened by the oil producers' success, many other Third World countries tried to create their own price-fixing cartels for copper, iron ore, tin, phosphates, rubber, coffee, cocoa, pepper and bananas. Their leaders talked of "one, two, many OPECs." The grand plans generally failed because members have lacked the cohesiveness to make them work ?so far. But the new importance of raw materials moved some big producers to raise prices unilaterally. Jamaica...
...Steel executives led by Board Chairman Edgar B. Speer arrived in Washington. Although U.S. Steel had raised prices by 23% earlier this year, the officials insisted that the new increases were needed to help the company "catch up" with recent run-ups in the cost of coal, iron ore and other materials-all of which have added up to a $20 rise in the cost of producing a ton of steel in just five months...
...Congressmen invited by the Institute are Les AuCoin (D-Ore.), David F. Emery (R-Me.), James J. Florio (D-N.J.), Harold Ford (D-Tenn.), Carroll Hubbard (D-Ky.), and Robert W. Kasten...