Word: rising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year's end. The only way to head it off, say government leaders around the world (including OPEC leaders), is for the oil-importing nations to cut their consumption by 2 million bbl. a day. That would bring supply and demand into balance and perhaps stop the wild rise in prices. But how can the pain of a cutback?which inevitably will mean less production and fewer jobs?be shared equitably among consuming nations with widely differing economic needs...
...Bowie has always made his best music when he assumes a persona--that's become one of the cliches of rock journalism, but it's true. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars defined a hard-hitting, loud, fast rock sound four years before the Ramones hit the road. To make that album in 1972, Bowie set himself up as the glittery, self-destructive androgyne Ziggy. More masks followed, dizzingly, along with more fine albums--Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Station to Station, and a popular if antiseptic excursion into Philadelphia funk, Young Americans. Then...
...advanced nations are worried about the rise in oil prices, the LDCs and the world banking system have even more cause for concern. In the aftermath of the fourfold price rise of 1973, U.S. banks led the way in trying to "recycle" the dollars that flowed into the oil-producing states and were then invested in the West or parked for short periods in the major institutions of industrialized nations. Much of this money was loaned to the hard-pressed developing countries to help them pay their ever heavier oil bills. The international banking system came through that operation...
...rise again...
Victor's sacrificial smugness serves to sweeten the bad taste of having lacked the will to rise to his potential. All this and more emerge in tirades that tend to drone when they should crackle...