Word: retorting
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...fact that they were going to be short of gasoline by this year?" Roberts asks. "The answer is absolutely yes. Those companies have good economists, and they had to have known that some time in 1973 they would bump up against the restraints of their refining capacity." Oilmen retort that until recently they could not get high enough prices for their products to make new refineries yield an adequate return on investment...
That gave Agnew a chance to retort but instead, speaking at a Republican fund raiser in Chicago, the Vice President sought to ease the tension that was damaging the party by calling Nixon "a great President," and saying: "Thank God we have a man who has faced some of the most unbelievable pressures and handled them...
...Deity. "God'll getcha for that," she warns those who cross her. She is a fighter who takes on city hall, featherbedding repairmen and department-store complaint departments. She can deck an adversary with an arch of a single brow as surely as with an adder-tongued retort like last week's explanation of a black eye: "I was jumping rope-without...
Brandt's aides retort that the German government has no intention of turning neutral, nor could it economically afford to leave the EEC. The real culprit, they say, is Paris, whose obfuscations and petty legalisms have stalled progress in the EEC for so long that many West Germans have grown irritated and disillusioned...
Goodyear and Firestone officials hotly retort that their companies increased their shares of the market merely by serving their customers well, and that the companies they acquired were incapable of surviving independently in a bitterly competitive business. Industry sources point out that Firestone bought out Seiberling Rubber Co., one of the acquisitions challenged by the Justice Department, only after getting feelers from the financially rocky firm. Lee Tire & Rubber had not produced a single tire in the past 30 months before it was acquired by Goodyear in 1966. Firestone issued a statement saying that the Government suit against...