Word: restricters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their East European allies, the Soviets earned $2 billion last year. However, Russia will rapidly scrape the limits of its self-sufficiency if it is to meet plans to expand its petrochemical industry and treble auto ownership (to 9 million cars) by 1980. Soon the Soviets will have to restrict oil sales and greatly increase the preferential prices that they charge to their Comecon partners. Last year Poland reportedly had to buy a large amount of Libyan crude, at $16 to $20 per bbl. Strapped for hard currency to pay for oil from non-Communist sources, East Germany...
Tour Guide. Gardner does not restrict himself to century-old American settings. He is also at home in classical antiquity (Jason and Medea) and the late Dark Ages (Grendel). He fills pages with royalty and serfs, knights, monks, prisoners and jailers. Magic is taken for granted; humble facts are made to seem miraculous. A lesser writer might stretch the profligate inventiveness of this single book into a long career...
...Autos Sacramentais that included shots of full frontal nudity. Since TV is government controlled, that in itself was a fairly strong indication that the wave of pornography is not about to subside in the near future. One reason is that the military junta-and the leftist unions, which heavily restrict the theoretically unfettered press by refusing to publish anything not to their liking-can use the sex explosion as evidence that censorship does not exist. Another is that the people obviously like it. Says one kiosk operator in Lisbon's Restauradores Square: "A few passers-by sometimes mutter...
Moulton met boos and hisses from Aggasiz residents when he went before the council to oppose a rezoning that would restrict Harvard's development north of the Law School. Harvard lost that...
Gorman said a significant effect of the new laws will be to "restrict information and reduce communication" from candidates, especially challengers. Incumbent congressmen are allowed two free annual occupant mailings to their districts, but Gorman said, "if you're a challenger" the postage alone for that much mailing would "take a healthy chunk out of your...