Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Everybody was unhappy. It was only a matter of coordination." From his fortified villa in the mainland province of Rio Muni, where he had lived in seclusion for the past two years, Macias put up a brief fight, then fled into the jungle. But first, he burned a huge pile of banknotes: some $105 million in Guinean and foreign currency, or just about all the cash in the country, which he had gathered up before he retired to the villa...
...early '70s. After the introversion of the mid-and later '70s, Schlesinger believes, we may now be on the brink of an explosively creative time. Says Schlesinger: "Two things happen in periods of inactivity and negativism. The national batteries get recharged, and the problems we neglect pile up until they threaten to become unmanageable...
...Embassy with him for his 1-hr, and 45-min. meeting with Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Administration officials were similarly excluded from Byrd's more-than-two-hour talk with Gromyko. This session began on an amiable note, with the Foreign Minister observing that his pile of briefing notes was thinner than Byrd's thick folder. "That's just my notebook," replied the majority leader. "I'm going to write down what you tell...
...selling out to larger firms and moving to Sunbelt states to enjoy their riches. Skilled professionals in fields such as neurosurgery and the law now make enough in fees to enable them to enter the millionaire class rather rapidly. In addition, top corporate executives are fairly often able to pile up a seven-figure net worth over the years...
Brushing aside warnings that they cannot in the long run prosper by gouging their customers, the OPEC ministers in effect have already decided to pile another price increase on top of the 35% rise that they have put into effect since December. The only question is how large it will be. Prevailing guess: the "marker" price will go up to $20 per bbl., from $14.54 now, bringing the total increase since December, when the price was $12.70, to about 50%. Still unsettled is the question of whether that will be a unified charge or merely a base to which individual...