Word: propell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most startling and significant example of this change in underlying trends is the price of oil. Nothing did more to propel inflation ever higher during the 1970s than the success of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in raising the benchmark price of a barrel of crude from $1.80 in 1970 to $34 now. Besides the skyrocketing increases in retail prices of gasoline, the spiral helped drive up everything from apartment rents, which are affected by fuel costs, to the price of food, which is hauled to supermarkets in diesel-burning trucks...
...hysteria so steel prices will stay high, while his henchman track down dirt on the heroic labor-organizers who are trying to bring about a social revolution. Their speeches are not just background color thrown it to give characters an excuse for passionate devotion or to propel a romantic plot Rather they are the lyrical heart of the script, bringing intensity and believability to characters who otherwise conform with relish to the movement's righteous stereotypes...
Nevertheless, these "very obscure" men are already jockeying for a position they insist could propel them to the Statehouse...
Moreover a draft would propel an already existing movement toward wasteful and dangerous militarism. Nunn and Co. argue somewhat smugly that even if the peaceniks bottle things up this year, we will eventually need conscription to supply the 200,000 additional troops mandated by Reagan's Pentagon bonanza--especially if demographic predictions hold and the pool of 18-year-olds drops in the future. Well, the point is that we don't need more soldiers, just as we don't need more new types of high-tech gadgetry that can't get off the ground...
...Washington, officials had little alternative but to swallow hard and accept their policy defeat. The U.S. was able to take some comfort in the fact that American firms will also benefit from the project. About half of the compressors used to propel gas through the pipeline are of U.S. design, and all of the 125 turbines driving them will be built by European firms under license from General Electric. In addition, the Soviets have decided to buy the equipment that will haul and lay the heavy sections of 56-inch pipe from the Caterpillar Tractor...