Word: readjusting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OPEC met in Libreville, Gabon, and put on the record what was already obvious: it will "readjust" (meaning raise) oil prices again when the freeze ends Sept. 30. The 13-nation cartel named no figure, but President Ford reacted to nervous speculation that the increase would amount to $2 to $4 per bbl., on top of the current price of $10.46 per bbl. for the key grade of crude. Such a boost, said the President, would be "totally without economic justification...
This does not so much throw the production out of balance as readjust the emphasis. Hickey does not stand apart, he becomes just another victim. The weight of the play falls on Robert Ryan, whose portrayal of Larry Slade is magnificent. Slade, the rummy poet anarchist, the man who likes to pretend he watches life with cynical dispassion from the grandstand, who claims to invite and welcome death, is a role full of traps. It is hard to separate Slade's sodden grandiloquence ("Go, for the love of Christ, you mad tortured bastard, for your own sake!") from Eugene...
Such a move would undoubtedly force the J.V.s to readjust their strategy and run for a second place finish...
Roach Brown insists that his play about how various prisoners react to Christmas is all too accurate. Indeed, after every trip outside, it has taken all his strength to readjust to prison. "Sometimes I think it's harder doing time this way than staying in Lorton all the time," says Brown. "Comin' back in, I move slow. Try to get the feel in the air. I take three times as long to put on my shoes, lace 'em up. I got to get the feel. If I can't, if I laugh or tell a joke...
...harsh reaction to zero gravity. In fact, they had spent long hours on board in their so-called "Penguin" exercise suits-tight, elastic garments designed to exert muscle-toning pressure on the body. Besides, the experience of America's astronauts seemed to demonstrate that the human body can readjust after prolonged weightlessness...