Word: reckoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third quarter and 4% in the fourth. Gasoline shortages would range between 2% and 5% for the rest of this year, and residual oil used to power electric generators would fall a dangerous 13% below demand in the months immediately ahead. On the other hand, FEO analysts reckon, with effective conservation the gap between supply and demand for all petroleum products would be only 3% in the current quarter and a mere 1 % in the third and fourth. No gasoline shortage at all would exist in the second half of 1974, and scarcities of residual oil would amount...
...ending in June 1975, on his tenure in office. Of his Adams House mastership, he tells friends: "I can't bring myself to look upon this as home." His family feels more comfortable in their summer home in New Hampshire, where his two young children don't have to reckon with the dirt and commotion of the city...
...said that the oil companies failed to reckon with the recession following the Vietnam War and with a weakened president following the Watergate affair...
Because there were literally tens of millions of potential plaintiffs, the defendant drug companies hoped that the courts would turn their backs on the whole morass on the ground that it was "unmanageable." But they did not reckon with Judge Lord, a former Minnesota attorney general who is the latest jurist to rule on the matter. "There are no unmanageable cases," he said. "There are only lazy judges." This week Lord will okay the last major settlement for American consumers. So far, the cases figure to cost the companies a total of $175 million in damages...
...advisers, alluding to the Egyptian military crossing of the Suez Canal in October, last week referred to Sadat's decision to begin peace negotiations as "the political crossing." Most participants assume that the conference can accomplish little until after the Israeli elections on Dec. 31. The Egyptians reckon that Sadat will then have about six weeks in which to get some results from the conference. If he fails, Sadat seems prepared to resume the fighting, though without much enthusiasm and probably without the advantage of surprise that the Egyptians enjoyed in October...