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...buying enough goods and services to prop demand and prices up for a long time. Frightened by the rise in the jobless rate, governments then throw the policy into reverse and pump out enough money to initiate expansion again?at a higher base rate of price increases than prevailed at the start. These stop-go policies interrupt growth, and to make up the production losses incurred in the slow phase, governments run ever larger inflationary deficits and accelerate increases in money supply. In the U.S., the avowedly conservative Nixon presidency has piled up cumulative deficits of about $120 billion...
...country would supply the U.S. with 1 million bbl. a day, implying a production boost all the way back to September levels. That move alone would cut the projected U.S. petroleum shortfall about in half. But Yamani's Arab brethren declined to disclose how fast they intended to pump and ship...
...some brands of gasoline could cost even more at the pump in coming weeks because many refiners will be blending high-priced Arab crude into their product and importing expensive fuel from Europe. But shortages should ease quickly; the Federal Energy Office will permit an immediate 11 million bbl. drawdown from refiners' inventories, the fourth so far this year...
...flow to the U.S. again; according to one report, they will decide two months after the embargo's end whether to keep the oil flowing or cut off shipments once more. They were equally silent on how soon they would cancel a 15% production cutback and pump as much oil as they did before the Arab-Israeli war broke out last October-a matter of even more importance for U.S. and world oil supply and prices than the embargo itself...
...trippers ... From work call to lunch hour, ironpushin' regulars hit the pile with predictable regularity ... To them, working out is a contest of who is the strongest, who is the baddest... As the sun slides down ... style is now trump and all hands hold the boss suit. Pump-up freaks are in the game; they rip off [lift after lift] until their muscles are swollen with blood and then, and only then, they strip to the waist. As they remove their shirts, a discerning eye weighs the audience reaction. If the crowd doesn't respond, they...