Word: priced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ironically, the very people who have persistently claimed, without foundation, that marijuana leads to heroin have now set in motion a naive crusade to artificially drive the price of marijuana up in the hope that this will stem...
...apparently hasn't occurred to them that with the price up, the marijuana market is now appealing to the underworld...
...incapable of winning a military victory in Viet Nam ?a fact that Nixon has admitted?the North in effect lost all incentive to go for a compromise. Thus, Nixon now seems to have raised false hopes, and this week's Moratorium may be only the beginning of the price he must pay for doing so. The specific impact of the Moratorium will not be known for some time, but plainly Nixon cannot escape the effects of the antiwar movement. Unless he can assert new leadership and rally much of the nation in some unforeseen way, Nixon's timetable...
...Administration. His chronic foot-in-mouth habits, which are costly in terms of both dollars and prestige, began to be revealed the moment that he was appointed. Last December, Kennedy said that he wanted "to keep every option open," including the option of asking for an increase in the price of gold-and that set off a new flurry of gold speculation on the London market. In June and again in July, he said that the Administration might be forced to consider putting controls on wages and prices. President Nixon issued firm denials, but Kennedy's remarks shook business...
...renowned for its refining and marketing organization, but it has not had access to enough crude oil to permit expansion. So the companies .agreed to have Sohio take over BP's U.S. marketing, with BP supplying Alaskan crude and ultimately acquiring a 54% interest in Sohio for a price of about $1 billion. The ingenious deal, like BP's earlier purchase of the Sinclair stations, will not require the British company to lay out a shilling now; the price is to be financed largely out of BP's eventual revenues from the sale of Alaskan crude...