Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embargo, the nation's major international oil companies did engage in some shortlived and frantic price gouging. That happened when OPEC prices began their dizzy upward spiral and the companies marked up the selling price of imported oil that had been brought into inventory before the prices rose. As much as $5 billion in windfall profits resulted. This happened at a time when the rest of the economy was plunging headlong into the worst economic downturn since the 1930s, and such cynical profit taking gave the oil companies a black eye. Few can forget how, in their annual reports...
Things have been heating up in Walpole's maximum end since the beginning of the summer The rate of stabbings--a fair condition of tension in the joint--rose. Four Block started heating up quite literally in August when the prison administration welded shut the vents on the third tier, after they caught an inmate smuggling objects through the tiny slits...
...Senate floor, meanwhile, the Byrd scheme was pushing toward an explosive conclusion. As Byrd rose, Abourezk walked up the steps to Mondale's chair. "You're not going along with this, are you?" he asked bitingly. Flushed and tense, Mondale snapped, "You can be sure I'm going to do the right thing...
...recovered if prices were allowed to rise sufficiently to encourage producers. Drilling has grown increasingly costly because most new gas can now be found only in tighter formations at depths of 15,000 ft. to 20,000 ft. The deregulators argued that even if the price of new gas rose as high as $3.25 per thousand cubic feet (m.c.f.)-compared with the present regulated price of $1.47 per m.c.f. when piped across state lines-only some $4 billion would be tacked to the national gas bill by 1980. The President's forces, on the other hand, maintained that...
Yale says tuition might go up if wages rose, and apparently the Elis are looking after their own wallets right...