Word: recent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their presence at the 149th Street-Grand Concourse IRT station in The Bronx, the traveler might well have become one more grim ripple in the current wave of terror beneath New York's streets. Nobody is sure exactly how many people have been robbed and beaten in recent months by teen-age gangs, often while fellow passengers and even train conductors did nothing. Already this year there have been eight subway murders. On one particularly bad night two token-booth operators in Queens were burned to death after some teen-agers poured gasoline through the change window...
...occasion requires, the ranks break apart like a set of Chinese boxes. In the course of two recent concerts at Manhattan's Lincoln Center-one devoted to the music of Aaron Copland, the other to works by Joseph and Michael Haydn-they subdivided into such combinations as a piano with string trio and a 13-piece mixed ensemble, besides playing at full strength...
According to a recent CBS-New York Times poll, 69% of the public still believe that gasoline prices are rising not because there is an energy crisis but merely because the oil companies want to make more money. In a sentiment that is widely shared, Margaret Dadian, vice president of an Illinois sales company, complains: "There is a shortage all right, but not as serious as we are told it is. It is more a question of oil companies' holding back until they can get higher prices. We have Arabs of our own in this country...
...have allowed oil companies to raise their prices just as the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has raised its own. Companies with big business overseas had certain advantages. Earnings in markets like West Germany, which has no price controls on petroleum products, climbed especially sharply. Also, the recent strengthening dollar against foreign currencies improved the overseas balance sheets of the companies...
...companies hoarding gasoline to raise the price? No. They are rebuilding their inventories, which they had to draw down sharply in recent months in order to supply customers. Companies are also shifting production from gasoline to heating oil so as to build up stocks for next winter. Even Carter last week admitted that this is necessary, and he warned that the U.S. faces gasoline shortages this summer and fall and a worse pinch next year...