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Word: preboycott (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Simon expects that if there is a political solution to the embargo, "there will be compelling reasons to roll the price [of oil] back." Yet even a quick restoration of the Arab oil flow would not ease tight supplies in the U.S. immediately, and prices would remain well above preboycott levels. For some time, the nation will probably remain split into two equally hopeful and equally helpless factions, the believers and the doubters. And as every American has come to know, a house divided against itself will be a little colder this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: No Shortage of Skepticism | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

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