Word: price
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies have rushed "with unseemly haste" to buy 21 million bbl. of Iranian oil that had been destined for the U.S. before Carter halted oil imports from Iran last month. The Japanese firms paid exorbitant sums for the oil, up to $45 per bbl., about twice the average OPEC price. Complained another Administration official: "They never quibbled about price, and when Iran said it would no longer take dollars in payment for its oil, the Japanese were all too willing to give them West German marks...
...Last week Connally took the unprecedented step for a major candidate of announcing that he would not accept federal matching funds, which are designed to ease and equalize the costs of campaigning in the primaries. Connally will be giving up some $3 million in grants, but figures that the price will be well worth it. Unlike the subsidized candidates, who are allowed I at present to raise only $15.8 million on their own, Connally will have no limits on the amounts he can solicit. More important, subsidized candidates will be allowed to spend only a certain amount in each state...
...tiger, or perhaps a rhinoceros. Under the scheme, the zoo has put up all 2,000 of its animals for "adoption," although they stay in the park. You can make someone a "Brookfield parent," or become one yourself, by donating money to help the hard-pressed zoo keep going. Prices vary. Parental rights, of a sort, to the Siberian tiger go for $1,800 a year; the rhino costs $2,000. Says Joyce Gardella, a Brookfield official: "Right away we were out of hairy-nosed wombats." Price per wombat...
...necessary element in the improvement of society's well-being?conservation, however limited, is beginning to be a hopeful factor in the nation's energy calculations. To what degree the flammable situation in the Middle East, the world's largest oil- producing region, plays a part remains uncertain. Price is a key factor and it keeps going up. Administration officials are confident that heating-oil supplies are sufficient to tide the nation through the winter, despite the U.S. declaration of a boycott of Iranian crude in November...
...white-haired widow who lives in a $50-a-month tenement in Providence, is tired and bitter. After five decades of working in textile mills, she receives $3,384 a year from Social Security as well as a small pension. A quarter of her income will go for heat; price increases mean a thinning out of her already poor diet. "Why should these oil people get rich while the poor people are going to freeze to death?" she asks. "Maybe I won't even be here by the time it gets really cold...