Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflaming global inflation. Worse, surging demand has enabled the OPEC nations to tack on one premium and surcharge after another, raising the actual price for most grades by as much as 30%, to $17 or more per bbl. Next week such cartel militants as Iran, Algeria and Libya will press for an additional jump of at least 40%. To make the extortionate price stick, Iran's oil chief, Hassan Nazih, declares that Iranian production, which is now little more than half its prerevolutionary 6.5 million bbl. daily, will be cut even further, perhaps to 3 million...
...losing patience with the Administration's weekly parade of officials to testify before congressional committees on "scapegoat of the week" questions, like whether it is the oil companies or the gasoline retailers, or even Government bungling itself, that is to blame for the energy pinch. In a remarkable press conference last week, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger expressed optimism about gasoline supplies for the remainder of the summer on the basis of a one-week increase in foreign oil imports. Yet almost in the next sentence, he was attacking the oil industry for not refining the crude as rapidly...
...ambition at work: "Welcome back, great magician, with your mute compositions! How eloquently they speak to the artist! How much they tell him about the representation of nature, the science of color and harmony! How freely the air flows around these objects!" Few painters have ever had such a press as the one which, interrupted by a few decades of neglect after his death, greeted Chardin from Diderot, the Goncourt brothers, Gide, Proust and dozens of others...
From 1975 to 1978, Reardon oversaw Harvard's program in public policy. Before coming here, he was press secretary to former governor Francis Sargent
...inscription, "At least we tried-thanks for everything-JFK." "You mean you were involved in the Bay of Pigs?" Arkin asks, deadpan. "I was the one who came up with the idea," Falk proudly replies. This is a CIA agent who confirms the worst charges that Congress and the press have brought against the agency-a liar and bumbler, he seems to act without orders and puts civilians in danger...